Occasional Tillage in a Field Established under Conservation Agriculture for Tomato Cropping  

作　　者：Roberto Botelho Ferraz Branco Bruno Cesar Ananias Andréia Cristina Silva Hirata Humberto Sampaio de Araújo Jane Maria de Carvalho Silveira Roberto Botelho Ferraz Branco;Bruno Cesar Ananias;Andréia Cristina Silva Hirata;Humberto Sampaio de Araújo;Jane Maria de Carvalho Silveira(Agronomic Institute, So Paulo Agency of Agribusiness Technology (IAC/APTA), Centre of Horticulture, Ribeiro Preto, Brazil;Syngenta Crop Protection, So Paulo, Brazil;So Paulo Agency of Agribusiness Technology (APTA), Presidente Prudente, Brazil;So Paulo Agency of Agribusiness Technology (APTA), Andradina, Brazil;Agronomic Institute, So Paulo Agency of Agribusiness Technology (IAC/APTA), Centre of Agricultural Biosystems and Post Harvest, Campinas, Brazil)

机构地区：[1]Agronomic Institute, So Paulo Agency of Agribusiness Technology (IAC/APTA), Centre of Horticulture, Ribeiro Preto, Brazil [2]Syngenta Crop Protection, So Paulo, Brazil [3]So Paulo Agency of Agribusiness Technology (APTA), Presidente Prudente, Brazil [4]So Paulo Agency of Agribusiness Technology (APTA), Andradina, Brazil [5]Agronomic Institute, So Paulo Agency of Agribusiness Technology (IAC/APTA), Centre of Agricultural Biosystems and Post Harvest, Campinas, Brazil

出　　处：《Agricultural Sciences》2025年第1期31-47,共17页农业科学(英文)

摘　　要：The Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a current concept drives to save natural resources for agricultural production based on the minimum soil disturbance or no-tillage, crop rotation and permanent maintenance of straw on soil surface. The increasing in soil density is a problem to achieve great copping yield under CA, so occasional one-time tillage is considered as an alternative to continuous no-tillage. In this way, this experiment was carried out to compare occasional tillage and no-tillage interacting with cover crops in a field established under conservation agriculture. Thus, the experimental treatments were set up by two tillage methods, conventional tillage and no-tillage and two cover crops, white lupin and millet setting in a randomized blocks with split plot design with four replications. The traits evaluated in the research were soil fertility, soil resistance to penetration, soil moisture and tomato agronomic performance. No-tillage was more efficient to preserve soil moisture;however soil fertility, soil resistance to penetration and tomato yield were favored by conventional tillage. Regarding to cover crops white lupin increased the soil K concentration and enhanced the tomato growth. Although occasional tillage had better performance to the soil fertility and tomato yield, we highlighted that CA is the better way to increase soil health and soil and water conservation along the time leading to so desired regenerative agriculture.The Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a current concept drives to save natural resources for agricultural production based on the minimum soil disturbance or no-tillage, crop rotation and permanent maintenance of straw on soil surface. The increasing in soil density is a problem to achieve great copping yield under CA, so occasional one-time tillage is considered as an alternative to continuous no-tillage. In this way, this experiment was carried out to compare occasional tillage and no-tillage interacting with cover crops in a field established under conservation agriculture. Thus, the experimental treatments were set up by two tillage methods, conventional tillage and no-tillage and two cover crops, white lupin and millet setting in a randomized blocks with split plot design with four replications. The traits evaluated in the research were soil fertility, soil resistance to penetration, soil moisture and tomato agronomic performance. No-tillage was more efficient to preserve soil moisture;however soil fertility, soil resistance to penetration and tomato yield were favored by conventional tillage. Regarding to cover crops white lupin increased the soil K concentration and enhanced the tomato growth. Although occasional tillage had better performance to the soil fertility and tomato yield, we highlighted that CA is the better way to increase soil health and soil and water conservation along the time leading to so desired regenerative agriculture.

关 键 词：No Tillage Crop Rotation Cover Crops Solanum lycopersicum L. 

分 类 号：S15[农业科学—土壤学]