Kimbirauskienė, R.; Sinkevičienė, A.; Jonaitis, R.; Romaneckas, K. Impact of Tillage Intensity on the Development of Faba Bean Cultivation. Sustainability2023, 15, 8956.
Kimbirauskienė, R.; Sinkevičienė, A.; Jonaitis, R.; Romaneckas, K. Impact of Tillage Intensity on the Development of Faba Bean Cultivation. Sustainability 2023, 15, 8956.
Kimbirauskienė, R.; Sinkevičienė, A.; Jonaitis, R.; Romaneckas, K. Impact of Tillage Intensity on the Development of Faba Bean Cultivation. Sustainability2023, 15, 8956.
Kimbirauskienė, R.; Sinkevičienė, A.; Jonaitis, R.; Romaneckas, K. Impact of Tillage Intensity on the Development of Faba Bean Cultivation. Sustainability 2023, 15, 8956.
Abstract
At the time of tillage, properties of the soil change, thereby changing the conditions of crop development and ultimately their productivity and quality. The effect of non-inversion tillage or no till on faba bean development is stills not widely investigated. For this reason, investigations of tillage systems from deep and shallow ploughing, chiselling, disking to no tillage were tested in Vytautas Magnus University, Agriculture Academy, Lithuania. The results showed that different tillage methods had less influence on faba bean development than meteorological conditions during the growing seasons. Soil chiselling generally showed better faba bean canopy development rates than other treatments. Faba bean roots developed somewhat better in not tilled plots. Vegetative conditions had a significant influence on faba bean development indicators. The effects of vegetative conditions during all four years of the experimentation were significantly different from each other. This shows that, due to rapid climate change, the conditions of each vegetative season become unique and require precise attention.
Keywords
conservation tillage; Vicia faba L.; canopy height and biomass; assimilation area; chlorophyll index; root nodulation and biomass
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy
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