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Nitrate and ammonium in soil solution in tobacco management systems

Douglas Rodrigo Kaiser, Dalvan José Reinert, José Miguel Reichert, Carlos Arnoldo Streck, André Pellegrini

01/Apr/2010

Tobacco farmers of southern Brazil use high levels of fertilizers, without considering soil and environmental attributes, posing great risk to water resources degradation. The objective of this study was to monitor nitrate and ammonium concentrations in the soil solution of an Entisol in and below the root zone of tobacco under conventional tillage (CT), minimum tillage (MT) and no-tillage (NT). The study was conducted in the small-watershed Arroio Lino, in Agudo, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A base […]