Celery harvesting causes losses of soil: A case study in Turkey

Parlak, Mehmet; Çiçek, Gıyasettin; Blanco‐Canqui, Humberto

doi:10.1016/j.still.2018.03.011

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“…Our approach focuses on the two main root and tuber crops (sugar beet, potato) produced in the EU. Soil Loss by Crop Harvesting (SLCH) also takes place when harvesting other crops such as carrot (Parlak et al, 2016), garlic (Faraji et al, 2017), onions (Mwango et al, 2014), cassava (Isabirye et al, 2007), chicory (Poesen et al, 2001) and celery (Parlak et al, 2018) but the harvested area of those root crops in EU is very limited.…”

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Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union: A first estimation of an underrated geomorphic process

Panagos

Borrelli

Poesen

2019

Science of The Total Environment

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Over the last two decades or so, there has been many research carried out to understand the mechanics and spatial distribution of soil loss by water erosion and to a lesser extent of wind, piping and tillage erosion. The acquired knowledge helped the development of prediction tools useful to support decision-makers in both ex-ante and ex-post policy evaluation. In Europe, recent studies have modelled water, wind and tillage erosion at continental scale and shed new light on their geography. However, to acquire a comprehensive picture of soil erosion threats more processes need to be addressed and made visible to decision-makers. Since 1986, a small number of studies have pointed to an additional significant soil degradation process occurring when harvesting root and tuber crops. Field observations and measurements have shown that considerable amounts of soil can be removed from the field due to soil sticking to the harvested roots and the export of soil clods during the crop harvest. This study aims to scale up the findings of past studies, carried out at plot, regional, and national level, in order to obtain some preliminary insights into the magnitude of soil loss from cropland due to sugar beets and potatoes harvesting in Europe. We address this issue at European Union (EU) scale taking into account long-term (1975–2016) crop statistics of sugar beet and potato aggregated at regional and country levels. During the period 2000–2016, sugar beets and potatoes covered in average ca. 4.2 million ha (3.81%) of the EU-28 arable land estimated at 110 million ha. The total Soil Loss by Crop Harvesting (SLCH) is estimated at ca. 14.7 million tons yr −1 in the EU-28. We estimate that ca. 65% of the total SLCH is due to harvesting of sugar beets and the rest as a result of potatoes harvesting.

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Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union: A first estimation of an underrated geomorphic process

Panagos

Borrelli

Poesen

2019

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Celery leaves were very uniform in this study as indicated by strong (R 2 =0.815) and almost linear correlation between the number of leaves and the weights of harvested fresh leaves. Cultivation of leaf celery as a perennial crop is more environmentally friendly than treated celery as an annual crop, since the later can potentially cause soil loss at rate ranged from 1.4 to 8.5 Mg ha −1 per harvest (Parlak et al 2018).…”

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Acclimating leaf celery plant (Apium graveolens) via bottom wet culture for increasing its adaptability to tropical riparian wetland ecosystem

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Abstract. Lakitan B, Kartika, Susilawati, Wijaya A. 2021. Acclimating leaf celery plant (Apium graveolens) via bottom wet culture to increase its adaptability to the tropical riparian wetland ecosystem. Biodiversitas 22: 320-328. Bottom-wet culture was set up for acclimating leaf celery plant prior to cultivation at shallow water table conditions. The aim of this research was to evaluate adaptability of leaf celery plants to riparian wetland ecosystem. Leaf celery was selected as potential candidate since natural habitat of its wild relatives is marshlands. Shading at 0%, 20%, and 60% was applied to reduced tropical sunlight intensity. Results of this study indicated that soil moisture was significantly increased in plants exposed to 60% shading, but leaf SPAD value was not significantly affected. Leaf celery is a perennial vegetable that can be frequently harvested. Weekly harvesting was rewarded with optimum yield and good quality leaves, i.e. high SPAD value (45.73 to 51.89). Delaying harvest to 3 weeks increased total yield but 52.12% of the harvested leaves were non-marketable. Mother plant of leaf celery produced suckers, but number of suckers only moderately correlated with yield (R2 = 0.56). Plants exposed to 60% shading produced significantly less suckers (9.00) than those exposed to full sunlight (12.46) and 20% shading (12.88) Use of zero intercept linear regression model, with length of leaf midrib (LLM) x leaf wingspan (LWS) as predictor, resulted in a geometrically based and accurate leaf area estimation model (LA = 0.3431(LLM x LWS); R2 = 0.87) for compound leaves of leaf celery plant. In conclusion, the most crucial factor in optimizing quantity and quality of yield was weekly harvesting focusing on marketable-size leaves.

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“…The SLCH data reported for the study region were used for this study (Parlak and Blanco-Canqui 2015;Parlak et al 2016;Parlak et al 2018). Data on the harvest area under potato, carrot and celery production, which are common crops, were collected from Izmir-Odemis town, Konya province, and Sakarya-Geyve town in Turkey (Turkish Statistical Institute 2016).…”

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Greenhouse gas footprint of replacing nutrients lost through soil erosion due to root and tuber crops harvesting

Parlak

2019

Mediterranean Agricultural Sciences

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Soil loss due to root crop harvesting (SLCH) is an important component of total soil erosion that threatens sustainable agriculture. Globally, it ranges from 1.81 to 4.55 Mg ha-1 per harvest. I assessed greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of producing fertilizer to replace nutrients lost with soil due to potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), carrot (Daucus carota L.), and celery (Apium graveolens L.) harvesting in the Izmir-Odemis town, Konya province and Sakarya-Geyve town in Turkey. Production of mineral fertilizers contributes to the global GHG emissions. About 40x10 3 Mg of soil per year was lost annually through potato, carrot and celery harvest from the study region, which resulted in 32.93 Mg of N, 3.21 Mg of P2O5, and 7.69 Mg of K2O losses per year. The fertilizer production to replace the nutrients lost releases about 270 Mg CO2 per year. The large nutrient losses and GHG emissions warrant consideration of soil management practices to reduce SLCH.

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Celery harvesting causes losses of soil: A case study in Turkey

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union: A first estimation of an underrated geomorphic process

Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union: A first estimation of an underrated geomorphic process

Acclimating leaf celery plant (Apium graveolens) via bottom wet culture for increasing its adaptability to tropical riparian wetland ecosystem

Greenhouse gas footprint of replacing nutrients lost through soil erosion due to root and tuber crops harvesting

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