Role and significance of treatment in modern farming systems

Abstract

The article deals with the influence of various methods of basic soil treatment on indicators of soil fertility and productivity of grain crop rotation crops at the experimental field of the Centre for precision farming. This center is based on the field experiment with the total area of about 6 hectares in the comparative study of precision and traditional farming technologies, as well as basic soil treatment techniques in a four-course crop rotation with alternating of crops: vetch and oat mixture for feed-winter wheat with stubble sowing of mustard for green manure-potatoes-barley. Two factors are studied in the experiment, namely technologies of field crops cultivation and methods of basic soil treatment. It is found that for most years, dump treatment was in the lead, primarily on a vetch and oat mixture and potatoes. The overall conclusion is that there are various degrees of manifestation interdependence between crops productivity and individual indicators of soil fertility, depending on treatment. The use of various agricultural methods that improve the rates of agrophysical, biological and agrochemical indicators will prevent the beginning of soil degradation in the field experiment of the center for precision farming and will stabilize soil characteristics at a sufficiently high level.