EFFECT OF POULTRY LITTER BIOCHAR ON THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF CORN

Authors

  • Jacqueline da Silva Mendes Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Campina Grande, PB https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8282-0480
  • Josely Dantas Fernandes Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Campina Grande, PB https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1297-6962
  • Lúcia Helena Garófalo Chaves Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Campina Grande, PB https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9905-2315
  • Gilvanise Alves Tito Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Campina Grande, PB https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7816-1830
  • Hugo Orlando Carvallo Guerra Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Campina Grande, PB https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5468-5509

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-21252021v34n419rc

Keywords:

Zea mays L.. Plant nutrition. Poultry waste.

Abstract

Corn, one of the main grain crops in Brazil, needs to have its nutritional requirements fully satisfied to achieve high biological productivity. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate the influence of increasing doses of poultry litter biochar on nutrient concentrations in the leaves of hybrid corn BRS 2022 and in the soil after harvest. The experiment was carried out in a completely randomized design, with four replicates, evaluating six doses of biochar (0; 2.02; 4.05; 6.07; 8.10 and 10.12 t ha-1) and the plots composed of one plant per pot with a volume of 20 dm3. The collection of leaves for leaf diagnosis was carried out at the time of flowering, removing the opposite leaf from the ear base in the middle third region. These leaves were dried in a forced air circulation oven, 65 °C, for a period of 48 hours, ground, sieved through 20 mesh and analyzed for the concentrations of macronutrients in the leaf tissue. At the end of the experiment, 83 days after corn sowing, soil samples were collected as a function of the treatments and then analyzed chemically. Biochar application promoted an increase in the leaf contents of N, P and K, resulting in improvements in the nutritional status of plants for these nutrients. The chemical characteristics of the soil, analyzed after the corn harvest, revealed that there was an influence of the doses of biochar on the levels of calcium, organic carbon, potassium and phosphorus.

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27-09-2021

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