Cover crops mixtures with more legumes maximize biomass and N input in irrigated fruit crops in Brazil
Renata Janaína Carvalho Souza,
Ana Dolores Santiago Freitas,
Vanderlise Giongo
et al.
Abstract:Cover crops, especially legumes, can counterbalance the depletion in soil organic matter, the low supply of nitrogen from the organic reserves and the losses of the inorganic fertilizers in irrigated fruit crops. We tested two cover crop mixtures, one with more and the other with less legume proportions, and one treatment where the spontaneous weeds were left to grow, before planting melon or intercropping in a mango orchard. Biomass of the cover crops and the weeds were cut and incorporated or left on the soi… Show more
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