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The effect of soil conservation tillage on soil moisture dynamics under single cropping and crop rotation

K. Kováč,M. Macák,M. Švančárková

Published 2018 in Plant Soil and Environment

ABSTRACT

During 1993–1995 the effect of conventional tillage, reduced till, mulch till and no-till technology on soil moisture dynamics has been studied in field experiment on Haplic chernozems near Piešťany. The tillage treatments were evaluated under a single cropping of maize and spring barley – common peas – winter wheat crop rotation. Soil samples for gravimetric determination of moisture content were collected from six layers up to 0.8 m, three times per year (April–July). The soil moisture was highly significantly influenced in order of importance by date of sampling, year, growing crops, tillage treatments, soil layer and by interactions year × crops, year × date of sampling, crops × date of sampling, tillage × date of sampling, year × tillage, date of sampling × layer and significant influences by interactions, tillage × crops. The soil under conventional tillage had significantly higher moisture content than tested reduced till, mulch till and no-till treatments. The significant influence of maize stand on be�er soil humidity condition (16.35%) in comparison to crops grown in a crop rotation (in average 14.10%) has been ascertained.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Venue

    Plant Soil and Environment

  • Publication date

    2018-02-10

  • Fields of study

    Agricultural and Food Sciences, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.17221/3564-PSE
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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