Maintaining soil properties and increasing cabbage yields through minimal tillage and legume cover crops

Continuous cultivation of vegetable crops such as cabbage throughout the year causes a decrease in crop and soil productivity. There it is necessary to develop agricultural practices that can maintain sustainable production while reducing land degradation. The aim of this experiment was to study soi...

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Main Authors: Prathama, Mathias, Rosliani, Rini, Handayani, Tri, Yufdy, M. Prama, Sulastrini, Ineu, Musaddad, Darkam
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural practices
Agricultural production
Beans
Crops
Cultivation
Highlands
Legumes
Microorganisms
Nutrients
Physical properties
Productivity
Soil fertility
Soil properties
Tillage
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Summary:Continuous cultivation of vegetable crops such as cabbage throughout the year causes a decrease in crop and soil productivity. There it is necessary to develop agricultural practices that can maintain sustainable production while reducing land degradation. The aim of this experiment was to study soil fertility and cabbage yields influenced by tillage methods and types of legumes as cover crops. The research was conducted in Pangalengan highlands, West Java, Indonesia. A split-plot design with four replications was applied. The main plot consisted of two tillage methods, namely minimum tillage (strip) and conventional tillage. The subplot consisted of legumes cultivated as cover crops on cabbage beds, namely string beans, red beans, peanuts, and plastic mulch as controls. The results indicated that the application of minimum tillage was not significantly different from conventional tillage in the chemical and physical properties of the soil, growth, and yield of cabbage. Therefore, minimal tillage can be used for the cultivation of cabbage in the highlands. Meanwhile, legume cover crops produced higher residual nutrients (organic C and soil P), soil microbial population, growth, and yield of cabbage compared to plastic mulch application, although the physical properties of the soil were not significantly different. This indicated that legumes planted among cabbage cultivations can increase soil fertility and cabbage yields. Then minimum tillage and cultivation of legumes as intercropping crops can be proposed as efficient methods of crop and soil management to maintain crop and land productivity in cabbage cultivation in the tropic highlands.
ISSN:0094-243X
1551-7616
DOI:10.1063/5.0190932