Soil uses during the interval between two sugarcane growth periods in order to diversify crops and improve the productive soil capacity for the next sugarcane growth period

• Grant number: 11/06491-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Soil Science
• Principal Investigator: Carolina Fernandes
• Grantee: Carolina Fernandes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the face of criticism from those still consider sugarcane a monoculture, it´s necessary studies to establish better soil use with crops diversification and considering the economic, social and environmental aspects. This study will evaluate the influence of physical and chemical soil attributes, resulting from different soil uses during the interval between two sugarcane growth periods, on sugarcane yield and longevity. This research project is part of a long term experiment, including the interval between two sugarcane growth periods (from October/2008 to February/2010) and the total period of sugarcane growth (February/2010 until the next sugarcane planting). The experiment has been carried out in Jaboticabal, São Paulo State (21°14'05'' S and 48°17'09'' W). The areas have different soils, eutroferric Red Oxisol (sugarcane production environmental A) and acric Red Oxisol (sugarcane production environmental C). The experimental design is a randomized block with five replications and four treatments, characterized by different soil uses during the interval between two sugarcane growth periods. The uses were the crops of: soybean/millet/soybean, soybean/sun hemp/soybean, soybean/fallow/soybean, and soybean. At this moment (June/2011), sugarcane is developing at 16 months after planting. Thus, this research project will comprise the first and the second sugarcane harvest, when the evaluation of physical and chemical soil attributes and sugarcane production will be done. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

VIZIOLI, BRUNO; FERNANDES, CAROLINA. Organic matter and physical attributes of Latosols 30 months after uses in the sugarcane fallow-period. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS-AGRARIA, v. 13, n. 4, 2018. (11/06491-0)

DE MORAES FARINELLI, JULIANA BORBA; LOPES SANTOS, DAVID FERREIRA; FERNANDES, CAROLINA; HONORATO FERNANDES, MARIELE MONIQUE; DA SILVA, MATHEUS FLAVIO. Crop Diversification Strategy to Improve Economic Value in Brazilian Sugarcane Production. AGRONOMY JOURNAL, v. 110, n. 4, p. 1402-1411, JUL-AUG 2018. (11/06491-0)

DA SILVA, RONIRAM PEREIRA; FERNANDES, CAROLINA. SOIL USES DURING THE SUGARCANE FALLOW PERIOD: INFLUENCE ON SOIL CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND ON SUGARCANE PRODUCTIVITY. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, v. 38, n. 2, p. 575-584, MAR-APR 2014. (11/06491-0)