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The yield of any crop depends on soil moisture. One of the moisture conservation technological methods is fallow in the form of soil mulch with a layer not exceeding a thickness of 5–6 cm. To create this, a harrow utilizing special working devices was designed. This paper presents the results obtained on the dynamics of changes in soil moisture in a fallow field treated with a new harrowing unit compared to a serial cultivator operating at a depth higher than 6 cm. It was observed that the soil moisture in the harrowed area of the fallow field was 1.4 times higher, while the moisture reserves were 2.2 times higher in contrast to the field with the agrotechnical environment, treated with the sweeps of a serial cultivator. The actual soil tillage depth uniformity reached with the new harrowing unit is higher in comparison to that of the basic cultivator unit because, according to the <italic>F</italic>-test, the dispersion of fluctuations in the field tillage depth by the former (0.64 cm2) is significantly less than that for the latter (3.24 cm2).
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The yield of any crop depends on soil moisture. One of the moisture conservation technological methods is fallow in the form of soil mulch with a layer not exceeding a thickness of 5–6 cm. To create this, a harrow utilizing special working devices was designed. This paper presents the results obtained on the dynamics of changes in soil moisture in a fallow field treated with a new harrowing unit compared to a serial cultivator operating at a depth higher than 6 cm. It was observed that the soil moisture in the harrowed area of the fallow field was 1.4 times higher, while the moisture reserves were 2.2 times higher in contrast to the field with the agrotechnical environment, treated with the sweeps of a serial cultivator. The actual soil tillage depth uniformity reached with the new harrowing unit is higher in comparison to that of the basic cultivator unit because, according to the F-test, the dispersion of fluctuations in the field tillage depth by the former (0.64 cm2) is significantly less than that for the latter (3.24 cm2).

Experimental Study of Two Fallow Field Treatment Influence Methods on Soil Moisture Dynamics

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Faculty of Engineering

Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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The yield of any crop depends on soil moisture. One of the moisture conservation technological methods is fallow in the form of soil mulch with a layer not...

Experimental Study of Two Fallow Field Treatment Influence Methods on Soil Moisture Dynamics

Publicado en línea: 01 nov 2022

Páginas: 176 - 182

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ata-2022-0026

Palabras clave
harrowing, cultivation, soil depth, soil moisture accumulation

© 2022 Volodymyr Bulgakov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Experimental Study of Two Fallow Field Treatment Influence Methods on Soil Moisture Dynamics

Publicado en línea: 01 nov 2022

Páginas: 176 - 182

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ata-2022-0026

Palabras claveharrowing, cultivation, soil depth, soil moisture accumulation

© 2022 Volodymyr Bulgakov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
harrowing, cultivation, soil depth, soil moisture accumulation