The impact of the conservation tillage maize into grass cover on reducing the soil loss due to erosion

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/20:81680 RIV/00027049:_____/20:N0000111

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/25/2019-SWR" target="_blank" >10.17221/25/2019-SWR</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The impact of the conservation tillage maize into grass cover on reducing the soil loss due to erosion

Original language description

Maize (Zea mays L.) belongs among the most important agriculture crops all over the world. The conventional way of cultivating maize with wide row spacing does not have a soil conservation effect and significantly contributes to water erosion and surface run-off. In our research, we tested the soil conservation technology (strip-till into grass cover) which took place in 2016 and 2017 in the location of Central Bohemia. The impact of a strip-till system of maize into grass cover on reducing the soil loss due to erosion was verified on the area of 21 m(2) using a rainfall simulator. During the research, 70 measurements were realised. The strip-till was compared to fallow land, conventional cultivation and no-till methods. Profound differences were found in the soil loss between the treatments. There was a decrease in the soil loss of about 98 % in the strip-till compared to the conventional cultivation. Moreover, the surface run-off was reduced by 79 %. The ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) models of the log-transformed soil loss on the surface run-off and treatment were highly significant (P &lt;10(-15)). The measurement results clearly demonstrate the positive effect of the strip-till into the grass on the surface run-off and soil loss. This positive soil conservation effect was observed even in springtime, as well as the rest of the season. Using a grass cover for establishing the maize significantly contributes to the soil conservation on the land threatened by erosion and offers farmers a suitable way of farming when growing maize. Strip-tilling is a technology that has great potential in sustainable farming.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40104 - Soil science

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Soil and Water Research

ISSN

1801-5395

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

158-165

UT code for WoS article

000545769400003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090921629