Abstract
The scientific and practical problems of deterioration of the soil fertility of apple tree plantations under drip irrigation with mineralized waters are discussed. A significant decrease in soil biodiversity was revealed, depending on the duration of cultivation of fruit plantations. A prerequisite for biologization is an objective assessment of the availability of soil nutrients under droppers, which will reduce the load on the environment as a result of the rational use of fertilizers. The necessity of biologization of garden farming and reduction of soil fatigue is actualized. The ways of solving the problem of soil fatigue and reducing the fertility of chernozem soils in fruit plantations of areas of forced use of drip irrigation with mineralized waters are outlined.
Highlights
The intensification of modern horticulture, based on chemicalization and the use of highperformance agricultural machinery, contributes to the strengthening of soil degradation processes and the depletion of biological diversity in the soil-biotic complex [1]
Soil suppressiveness is a set of biological, physico-chemical and agrochemical properties of soils that ensure the development of useful biota or suppressor organisms that suppress the parasitic activity of phytopathogens
A statistically significant positive correlation was determined for the increase in the content of mobile phosphorus (r=0.95) and exchangeable potassium (r=0.81) in the soil directly under the droppers as a result of the systematic use of fertigation
Summary
The intensification of modern horticulture, based on chemicalization and the use of highperformance agricultural machinery, contributes to the strengthening of soil degradation processes and the depletion of biological diversity in the soil-biotic complex [1]. The problem of modern gardening is the need to biologize production processes, improve soil condition, increase their resistance to anthropogenic loads. Soil suppressiveness is a set of biological, physico-chemical and agrochemical properties of soils that ensure the development of useful biota or suppressor organisms that suppress the parasitic activity of phytopathogens. The analysis of the state of soil fertility in various fruit growing zones revealed common scientific and practical problems: the manifestation of soil fatigue during long-term cultivation of garden crops, intensive irrational use of agrochemicals and pesticides, soil degradation as a result of drip irrigation with mineralized waters.
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