Tillage system and cover crop effects on organic carbon and available nutrient contents in light chestnut soil
Ospanbayev Z. Doszhanova A. Abdrazakov Y. Zhapayev R. Sembayeva A. Zakieva A.A. Yertayeva Z.
Jul - Sep 2023Federation of Eurasian Soil Science Societies
Eurasian Journal of Soil Science
2023#12Issue 3238 - 243 pp.
Optimal use of management systems including tillage and cover crops are recommended to improve available nutrient contents in soils and sustain agricultural production. The effects on organic carbon and available nutrient contents of three tillage methods (conventional tillage, minimum tillage and no-tillage) and different cover crops such as flaxseed oil, buckwheat, soybean, pea, corn, sorghum, spring oilseed rape and sugar beet were evaluated in a short-term experiment on a light chestnut soil in Kazakhstan. Organic carbon and available nutrient contents were measured in the autumn of 2021. The field measurements included the yield of cover crops and input of organic matter into soils with root and other residues of cover crops. In the laboratory, total organic carbon, labile organic carbon, easily hydrolyzable nitrogen (NH4-N), NO3-N, available P and exchangeable K were measured. The results showed that one season of cover crop growth was not enough to find detectable changes in soil organic matter and available nutrient status in light chestnut soils. On the other hand, even in a short-term field experiment period of 3 months, the most labile organic carbon in soil organic carbon was obtained in conventional tillage. Overall, the results show that at least in the short term and under lower drip irrigation rate in summer for the study area, reduced tillage methods (no-tillage and minimum tillage) is suitable in the study area for soybean, corn and sugar beet production after intensive tillage in the previous year.
available nutrient , Cover crops , no-tillage , organic matter , tillage
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Kazakh Research Institute of Farming and Crop Production, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kazakh National Agrarian Research University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Shakarim University of Semey, Semey, Kazakhstan
Kazakh Research Institute of Farming and Crop Production
Kazakh National Agrarian Research University
Shakarim University of Semey
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