Physical soil quality in sugar cane area with traffic control

• Grant number: 12/21094-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: August 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agricultural Engineering - Soil and Water Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Zigomar Menezes de Souza
• Grantee: Allan Charlles Mendes de Sousa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola (FEAGRI). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

By adopting mechanical harvesting systems for sugar cane crop management, concerns associated to soil compaction and its effects on crop productivity emerge. Therefore, traffic control shows up as a great alternative, since it separates the traffic areas from those devoted to plant growth, concentrating the tires passage on delimited strips, and generating substantial reduction on soil compaction, mainly when it is associated to combined double spacing plantation. The present work aims to study the changes on soil physical properties as well as on the development of sugar cane growth in areas with and without traffic control and planted with single and combined double spacing. The work will be carried on two areas of different soil textures classes, i.e., clay and sandy soils, located in the Usina Santa Fé, at the city of Nova Europa-SP. One experiment will be carried on each soil class by adopting a randomized block design with three treatments, four replications, and plots with dimensions of 30 m x 50 m. The employed treatments are T1: Sugar-cane planted with single spacing and harvested by automatic tractor guidance, T2: Sugar-cane planted with single spacing and harvested without automatic tractor guidance and T3: Sugar-cane planted with combined double spacing and harvested with automatic tractor guidance. Furthermore, a native forest area set on a similar soil to the experimental site will be used as a control treatment. At the end of the experiment, it is expected the obtained results to support the recommendation of traffic control in areas of sugar cane planted with double spacing as an alternative to mitigate the problems related to soil compaction.

Scientific publications

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MENDES DE SOUSA, ALLAN CHARLLES; VIEIRA FARHATE, CAMILA VIANA; DE SOUZA, ZIGOMAR MENEZES; RODRIGUES TORRES, JOSE LUIZ; DA SILVA, REGINALDO BARBOZA. Soil Load-Bearing Capacity and Development of Root System in Area Under Sugarcane with Traffic Control in Brazil. SUGAR TECH, v. 21, n. 1, p. 153-161, FEB 2019. (12/21094-0, 12/14412-6)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SOUSA, Allan Charlles Mendes de. Physical attributes of soil and plant in sugar cane area with traffic control in different spacings. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola Campinas, SP.