Contribution of the Incorporation of Poultry Litter and Limestone for the Fertility of Sandy Soil in the Brazilian Amazon

Juliana Guimarães Gerola¹, Juan Ricardo Rocha¹, Stella Cristiani Gonçalves Matoso^2,3*, Leandro Dias da Silva⁴

¹Agricultural Engineering, Federal Institute of Rondonia, Campus Colorado do Oeste, Colorado do Oeste, Brazil.
²Biodiversity and Biotechnology of the Amazon at the BIONORTE Network, Manaus, Brazil.
³Soil Science, Federal Institute of Rondonia, Campus Colorado do Oeste, Colorado do Oeste, Brazil.
⁴Soil Laboratory, Federal Institute of Rondonia, Campus Colorado do Oeste, Colorado do Oeste, Brazil.

DOI: 10.4236/nr.2014.515082                

Abstract

Sandy soils have limitations for growing plants. In general, they have low fertility, high toxic aluminum content and low organic matter. The organic matter is responsible for most of the cation exchange capacity of these soils. Added to this, the low clay content and the structure of these soils with large volumes of macropores, determine their low water retention. An alternative is the incorporation of organic waste combined with the practice of liming. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the contribution of the incorporation of poultry litter and limestone in the fertility of sandy soils in the Brazilian Amazon. The experiment was conducted in Colorado do Oeste, RO, on a Quartzipsamment in a completely randomized block design in a 4 × 4 × 2 factorial scheme, corresponding to four doses of poultry litter (0, 5, 10 and 15 mg·ha^-1), its incorporation for four times (0, 75, 110 and 145 days) in the presence and absence of 2 mg·ha^-1 of limestone, with six replications. The incorporation of 15 mg·ha^-1 of poultry litter combined with 2 mg·ha^-1 of limestone for 75 days after the merger raises several components of Quartzipsamment fertility, mainly being the availability of phosphorus.

Keywords

Quartzipsamments, Organic Waste, Liming

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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