Title
Fertilización con fósforo y control de malezas para el establecimiento de Brachiaria brizantha a escala comercial
Date Issued
01 January 2004
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
Lack of large sized suitable demonstration trials has prevented the adoption of improved pasture establishment technology at farm level in Ucayali. The aim of this experiment was to demonstrate the benefits of the mechanized pasture seeding and, particularly, the need for P fertilization and chemical weed control. The effect of three establishment treatments were evaluated using commercial size land areas. The treatments were: (A) conventional mechanized establishment, (B) conventional mechanized establishment plus P fertilization and (C) conventional mechanized establishment plus P fertilization plus chemical weed control, on seedling emergence, height and cover growth and dry biomass accumulation of a Brachiaria brizantha - Centrosema macrocarpum pasture. Unexpectedly, the effects of P fertilization and control weed with glyphosate were non significant, yet, in some cases, treatment (C) performed poorer. Seedling emergence for all treatments was notably poor, probably due to a low quality seed, insect carrying or runoff losses. Even though, the B. brizantha - C. macrocarpum pasture accumulated dry biomass representing 30% of the total vegetation in a 189 day period.
Start page
92
End page
99
Volume
15
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia del suelo
Agricultura
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85046994008
Source
Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Peru
ISSN of the container
16823419
Sponsor(s)
Resultados de investigación de la Esta- ción Experimental del Instituto Veterinario de Investigaciones Tropicales y de Altura (IVITA) y de otras instituciones, como el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) y el Instituto Nacional de Investiga-ción Agraria (INIA), han mostrado que es posible un establecimiento exitoso, en un tiem-po razonablemente corto, con semilla botáni-ca y bajo una combinación óptima de facto-res de suelo, clima y competencia con la ve-getación nativa. Así, para el establecimiento mecanizado de pasturas del género Brachiaria es particularmente necesaria la fertilización con P, K y S (Ara y Ordóñez, 1993; CIAT, 1988) y un efectivo control de la vegetación nativa mediante el uso de herbici-das como glyphosato (Vela et al., 1990; Campos, 1990).
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