Organic fertilization promotes crop productivity through changes in soil aggregation

2021 ◽  
pp. 108533
Author(s):  
Shanyi Tian ◽  
Baijing Zhu ◽  
Rui Yin ◽  
Mingwei Wang ◽  
Yuji Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Soil Aggregation ◽  
Organic Fertilization

scholarly journals Organic Fertilization and Tree Orchards

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 692
Author(s):  
Theocharis Chatzistathis ◽  
Victor Kavvadias ◽  
Thomas Sotiropoulos ◽  
Ioannis E. Papadakis
Keyword(s):  
Cover Crops ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Organic Fertilizers ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Organic Fertilization ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Tree Crops ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Nutritional Needs

Organic fertilization has been proposed as an alternative approach to supply nutrients for crops, in the frame of organic and sustainable agriculture, with the aim to decrease high inorganic fertilization rates, protect the environment and decrease production costs for farmers. Since different types of organic fertilizers, such as manures, olive mill wastewater (OMW), sewage sludge (SS), crushed pruning wastes, composts and cover crops, exist as soil amendments to improve soil fertility, enhance plant nutrition and sustain the productivity of tree crops, their role as biofertilizers has been fully analyzed under the most important published papers. In addition, the benefits and drawbacks of organic fertilization, in a comparative approach with inorganic fertilization, are presented and discussed. Within the most important advantages of organic fertilizers, the enhancement of beneficial soil microorganisms and the improvement in soil physical properties and fertility should be included, while their most important disadvantage is their inability to directly satisfy the prompt N nutritional needs of tree crops, due to slow N mineralization rates. Finally, some novel aspects on the interrelation among innovative organic fertilizers for tree crops, sustainable field management, crop productivity and fruit quality are also included in this review, under the light of the most important and recent research data existing in the literature, with the aim to provide recommendations and future directions for organic fertilizers by tree growers.

Sequestration of carbon oxide in different fertilization systems in agrocenoses

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Demydenko ◽  
Yu. Zapasna ◽  
V. Velychko
Keyword(s):  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Carbon Oxide ◽  
Organic Fertilizers ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Organic Fertilization ◽  
Organic System ◽  
Capacity Level ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Fertilization System ◽  
By Products

Aim. To substantiate the agroecological estimation of the performance of a short crop rotation in conditions of intense and organic system of fertilization on the basis of restoring normative parameters of emission and se- questration of С-СО 2 circulation while using by-products as organic fertilizers in conditions of modern climatic system of the Forest-Steppe of Ukraine. Methods. Field, statistical, laboratory. Results of Investigations. The performance of short crop rotations is determined by the capacity of С-СО 2 balance. Strong inverse correla- tion was found between the capacity of N and the ratio between C and N in the agrocenosis, which demon- strated that enhancing the humifi cation processes (ratio constriction) led to the increase in the capacity of С org balance and the decrease in the capacity level of С-СО 2 balance (enhancing mineralization), related to the reduction in the performance of crops in the agrocenosis of a crop rotation compared to the organic system of fertilization. The capacity of С-СО 2 and С org balance correlates at the medium level of inverse direction, and the yield of the main products, feed units and digestible protein correlates at the level of strong direct correlation. Conclusions. General mineralization of by-products and humus in the agrocenosis and humifi cation processes are antagonists, so extending the ratio between С and N at the intense fertilization system stimulates the in- crease in performance and reducing С to N similar to the organic fertilization system enhances the humifi cation process due to binding of С org into humus and limits mineralization which leads to the reduction in agrocenosis performance at the organic fertilization system.

NITROGEN CYCLES IN CROP ROTATIONS DIFFERING IN FERTILIZATION

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saulius GUŽYS ◽  
Stefanija MISEVIČIENĖ
Keyword(s):  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Soil Nitrogen ◽  
Nitrogen Fertilizer ◽  
Nitrogen Balance ◽  
Mineral Soil ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Drainage Water ◽  
Perennial Grasses ◽  
Crop Rotations ◽  
Cereal Crop

The use of nitrogen fertilizer is becoming a global problem; however continuous fertilization with nitrogen ensures large and constant harvests. An 8 year research (2006–2013) was conducted to evaluate the relationships between differently fertilized cultivated plant rotations. The research was conducted in Lipliunai (Lithuania) in the agroecosystem with nitrogen metabolism in fields with deeper carbonaceous soil, i.e. Endocalcari Endohypogleyic Cambisol (CMg-n-w-can). The research area covered three drained plots where crop rotation of differently fertilized cereals and perennial grasses was applied. Samples of soil, water and plants were investigated in the Chemical Analysis Laboratory of the Aleksandras Stulginskis University certified by the Environment Ministry of the Republic of Lithuania. The greatest productivity was found in a crop rotation with higher fertilization (N32-140). In crop rotation with lower fertilization (N24-90) productivity of cereals and perennial grasses (N0-80) was 11–35 % lower. The highest amount of mineral soil nitrogen was found in cereal crop rotation with higher fertilization. It was influenced by fertilization and crop productivity. The lowest Nmin and Ntotal concentrations in drainage water were found in grasses crop rotation. Crop rotations of differently fertilized cereals increased nitrogen concentration in drainage water. Nmin concentration in water depended on crop productivity, quantity of mineral soil nitrogen, fertilization, and nitrogen balance. The lowest nitrogen leaching was found in the crop rotation of grasses. Cereal crop rotation increased nitrogen leaching by 12–42 %. The usage of all crop rotations resulted in a negative nitrogen balance, which essentially depended on fertilization with nitrogen fertilizer.

Influence of mineral and organic fertilization on the production of CO2 and N2O gases in soil

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
György Heltai ◽  
Attila Anton ◽  
Sándor Hoffmann ◽  
Tibor Szili-Kovács ◽  
Katalin Berecz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Fertilization

A Keszthelyen 1963-ban beállított „Szerves- és műtrágyák hatását összehasonlító tartamkísérlet” kiválasztott kezeléseiből vett talajokkal beállított tenyészedénykísérletben és ezzel párhuzamosan a szegélyparcellákból kiemelt bolygatatlan talajoszlopokban vizsgáltuk az ásványi- és istállótrágyák, valamint a talajba bedolgozott növényi szerves anyag hatását a talajlevegőben a tenyészidő folyamán felhalmozódó CO2és N2O gázok képződésének dinamikájára.A CO2-koncentráció a tenyészidő folyamán a kezdeti stagnálás után egy, vagy több maximum elérése után a kezdeti szintre csökkent mindkét kísérleti rendszerben, s a változás jó korrelációt mutatott a napi középhőmérséklet változásával.A N2O képződésének időbeli változása a talajoszlopokban nem mutatott egyértelmű tendenciát, míg a tenyészedényekben csak a vetést követő 6. napig mértünk koncentrációnövekedést.A bolygatatlan talajoszlopokban a felszíntől 40 cm mélységig a CO2-koncentráció szignifikánsan növekedett, 40–60 cm között már nem változott számottevően. Ugyanez a tendencia mutatkozott a N2O-koncentráció mélység szerinti változásában, de a nagyobb mérési bizonytalanság miatt kevésbé egyértelműen. A tenyészedényekben a 20 cm mélyen elhelyezett csapdákban mért CO2-koncentráció értékek nagyságrendileg megegyeztek a talajoszlopban 20 cm mélyen mért értékekkel. A trágyázatlan kezelésekben a növények jelenléte mind a talajoszlopban, mind a tenyészedényekben növelte a CO2- és a N2O-produkciót. A trágyázási kezelések hatására a talajoszlopokban csökkent mindkét gáz produkciója. Szerves trágya alkalmazásakor növény jelenlétében ez a csökkenés kisebb mértékű volt, mint ásványi trágya esetében. A trágyázási kezelések hatására a tenyészedényekben növények jelenlétében növekedett a talajban a CO2és N2O produkciója. A növekedés a trágyakezelések termésnövelő hatása sorrendjében istállótrágya < ásványi trágya < (istállótrágya+ásványi trágya) fokozódott.Összegezve megállapítható, hogy a CO2és N2O gázképződés és a talajból történő kilépés feltételei a bolygatatlan és a művelt talajban eltérnek, s e folyamatra jelentős hatással van a növények jelenléte és anyagcseréje. Kísérleteink eredményeként létrehoztunk egy olyan adatbázist, amelyre alapozva megfelelő matematikai modellek alkalmazásával reálisan becsülhető a mezőgazdasági talajok CO2 és N2O emissziója különböző tápanyagellátási és művelési módok esetén.

Analysis of Crop Yield Prediction of Kharif & Rabi Jowar Crops Using Data Mining Techniques

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Sujata Mulik
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Crop Yield ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Yield Prediction ◽  
Data Mining Techniques ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Rabi Crops

Agriculture sector in India is facing rigorous problem to maximize crop productivity. More than 60 percent of the crop still depends on climatic factors like rainfall, temperature, humidity. This paper discusses the use of various Data Mining applications in agriculture sector. Data Mining is used to solve various problems in agriculture sector. It can be used it to solve yield prediction.  The problem of yield prediction is a major problem that remains to be solved based on available data. Data mining techniques are the better choices for this purpose. Different Data Mining techniques are used and evaluated in agriculture for estimating the future year's crop production. In this paper we have focused on predicting crop yield productivity of kharif & Rabi Crops. 

Comparative Advantage of Using Biopesticides in Ukrainian Agroecosystems

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasrat Arjjumend ◽  
Konstantia Koutouki ◽  
Olga Donets
Keyword(s):  
Shelf Life ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Plant Protection ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Soil Biology ◽  
Chemical Contamination ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Irreversible Damage

The use of unsustainable levels of chemical fertilizers and plant protection chemicals has resulted in a steady decline in soil and crop productivity the world over. Soil biology has undergone irreversible damage, coupled with a high concentration of toxic chemical residues in plant tissues and human bodies. Agricultural practices must evolve to sustainably meet the growing global demand for food without irreversibly damaging soil. Microbial biocontrol agents have tremendous potential to bring sustainability to agriculture in a way that is safe for the environment. Biopesticides do not kill non-target insects, and biosafety is ensured because biopesticides act as antidotes and do not lead to chemical contamination in the soil. This article is part of a larger study conducted in Ukraine by researchers at the Université de Montréal with the support of Mitacs and Earth Alive Clean Technologies. The responses of farmers who use biofertilizers (“user farmers”) and those who do not (“non-user farmers”), along with the responses of manufacturers or suppliers of biofertilizers, and research and development (R&D) scientists are captured to demonstrate the advantages of applying microbial biopesticides to field crops. Participants reported a 15-30% increase in yields and crop production after the application of biopesticides. With the use of biopesticides, farmers cultivated better quality fruits, grains, and tubers with a longer shelf life. Moreover, while the risk of crop loss remains high (60-70%) with chemically grown crops, this risk is reduced to 33% on average if crops are grown using biopesticides. The findings indicate that a large proportion of farmers would prefer to use biopesticides if they are effective and high quality products. In this context, the quality and effectiveness of products is therefore very important. Despite their benefits to soil, human health, and ecosystems, biopesticides face significant challenges and competition vis-à-vis synthetic pesticides for a variety of reasons. Therefore, the development of biopesticides must overcome the problems of poor quality products, short shelf life, delayed action, high market costs, and legal/registration issues.

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