Effect of the implementation of different agricultural systems on the soil quality from the municipality of Cachipay, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Keywords:
Agroecology, conventional agriculture, polyculture, soil quality indicatorsAbstract
Soil quality is considered a measure of the sustainability of land use and agricultural management practices. This quality can be determined by monitoring different types of physical, chemical and biological soil indicators. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of the implementation of different agricultural management in four representative production systems (PS) such as polyculture, organic coffee cultivation, crop of Sechium edule, and pasture at rest) at the municipality of Cachipay in Cundinamarca, Colombia. Two sampling events were carried out in June and September 2016, in which two sampling areas were selected for each PS. Within each area, two quadrants (2.5 x 2.5 m) were established from which two composite samples (25 subsamples each) of soil (0-15 cm) were taken. The results show that the polyculture and the organic coffee crop positively impact the physical state of the soil (penetration resistance, mean weighted diameter, stability index, and aggregation states), which seems to generate a better environment for edaphic microorganisms, reflected in a higher density of total heterotrophs and higher catalase enzymatic activity. It showed that implementation of different agricultural management practices in the PS generates modifications in the soil properties, which can alter the soil processes and their functioning.
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43. Tueche J. y S. Hauser. 2011. Maize (Zea mays L.) yield and soil physical properties as affected by the previous plantain cropping systems, tillage and nitrogen application. Soil and Tillage Research 115: 88-93.
44. Unalmed. 2006. Métodos físicos de suelos. Escuela de Geociencias, Facultad de Ciencias. http://www.unalmed.edu.co/ (consulta del 10-05-2017).
45. Vallejo, V., F. Roldan y R. Dick. 2010. Soil enzymatic activities and microbial biomass in an integrated agroforestry chronosequence compared to monoculture and a native forest of Colombia. Biology and Fertility of Soils 46(6): 577-587.
46. Vallejo, V., Z. Arbeli, W. Terán, N. Lorenz, R. Dick y F. Roldan. 2012. Effect of land management and Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC trees on soil microbial community and enzymatic activities in intensive silvopastoral systems of Colombia. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 150: 139-148.
47. Vallejo-Quintero, V. 2013. Importancia y utilidad de la evaluación de la calidad de suelos mediante el componente microbiano: experiencias en sistemas silvopastoriles. Colombia Forestal 16(1): 83.
48. Veiga M., D. Reinert y J. Reichert. 2009. Aggregate stability as affected by short and long-term tillage systems and nutrient sources of a hapludox in southern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 33(4): 767-777.
49. Xu, S., M. Silveira, K. Inglett, L. Sollenberger y S. Gerber. 2017. Soil microbial community responses to long-term land use intensification in subtropical grazing lands. Geoderma 293: 73-81.
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Vallejo, V. E., Afanador, L. N., Hernández, M. A., & Parra, D. C. (2020). Effect of the implementation of different agricultural systems on the soil quality from the municipality of Cachipay, Cundinamarca, Colombia. Bioagro, 30(1), 27-38. Retrieved from https://revistas.uclave.org/index.php/bioagro/article/view/2708
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