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Productivity of fodder crops cultivated in monoculture and crop rotation in steppe zone of the Southern Urals

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The problems of producing and increasing feed volume for livestock industry when growing agricultural feed crops in crop rotation system in the Southern Urals were studied. The possibility of growing forage crops in permanent cultivation under two fertilization regimes was considered. The characteristic features of climate conditions during 32 years of research were described, 10 of them correspond to desert conditions (hydrothermal index 0.4). Based on the study of corn cultivation for silage in monocropping, it was established that this variant of the experiment was the most productive both without fertilizer application (283.62 thousand fodder units from 3 hectares of arable land) and when using mineral fertilizers (303.06 thousand fodder units). Growing barley in crop rotation with soil-protective fallow provides the crop yield of 67.13 thousand fodder units from 1 hectare (total for 19902021).

Source: RUDN Journal of Agronomy and Animal Industries

DOI: 10.22363/2312-797x-2024-19-2-239-249

Author: Vitaly Y. Skorokhodov

Institution: Federal Scientific Center for Biological Systems and Agricultural Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement

Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Life on land

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Russian Academy of Sciences