Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems

Intensive agriculture is a farming system characterised by a large use of inputs, causing a large pressure on the environment. As peculiar and efficient example of intensive agriculture cultivation under plastic tunnels provides several advantages for farmers due to improvement of microclimatic cond...

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Autores principales:	Scotti,R, Bonanomi,G, Scelza,R, Zoina,A, Rao,M.A
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Chilean Society of Soil Science / Sociedad Chilena de la Ciencia del Suelo 2015
Materias:	Compost plastic cover soil quality soil organic carbon enzymatic activities plant disease suppression
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-951620150002000052015-09-29Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systemsScotti,RBonanomi,GScelza,RZoina,ARao,M.A Compost plastic cover soil quality soil organic carbon enzymatic activities plant disease suppression Intensive agriculture is a farming system characterised by a large use of inputs, causing a large pressure on the environment. As peculiar and efficient example of intensive agriculture cultivation under plastic tunnels provides several advantages for farmers due to improvement of microclimatic conditions coupled with a relatively low investment costs. In the Mediterranean Basin such cultivation systems reach about 200,000 ha mainly in Spain, Turkey, Italy, and Morocco. As downside, intensive agriculture negatively affects soil fertility principally because of a loss in soil organic matter. Sustainable practices providing organic amendments could be a useful tool to maintain or increase organic matter content in agricultural soils, preserving and improving soil fertility. An improved knowledge of management factors affecting soil quality is crucial to plan farming systems that effectively maintain soil fertility. Therefore, this review focuses on the potential value of organic amendments in the recovery of soil fertility, in particular in sites under plastic cover intensive farming system. Following a brief overview of the effects of intensive agriculture on soil, the review describes various organic amendments used in agriculture and their benefits on soil fertility, to conclude with the need, in the future researches, to identify organic amendments able to maximize a recovery of soil fertility.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessChilean Society of Soil Science / Sociedad Chilena de la Ciencia del SueloJournal of soil science and plant nutrition v.15 n.2 20152015-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-95162015000200005en10.4067/S0718-95162015005000031
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spellingShingle	Compost plastic cover soil quality soil organic carbon enzymatic activities plant disease suppression Scotti,R Bonanomi,G Scelza,R Zoina,A Rao,M.A Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems
description	Intensive agriculture is a farming system characterised by a large use of inputs, causing a large pressure on the environment. As peculiar and efficient example of intensive agriculture cultivation under plastic tunnels provides several advantages for farmers due to improvement of microclimatic conditions coupled with a relatively low investment costs. In the Mediterranean Basin such cultivation systems reach about 200,000 ha mainly in Spain, Turkey, Italy, and Morocco. As downside, intensive agriculture negatively affects soil fertility principally because of a loss in soil organic matter. Sustainable practices providing organic amendments could be a useful tool to maintain or increase organic matter content in agricultural soils, preserving and improving soil fertility. An improved knowledge of management factors affecting soil quality is crucial to plan farming systems that effectively maintain soil fertility. Therefore, this review focuses on the potential value of organic amendments in the recovery of soil fertility, in particular in sites under plastic cover intensive farming system. Following a brief overview of the effects of intensive agriculture on soil, the review describes various organic amendments used in agriculture and their benefits on soil fertility, to conclude with the need, in the future researches, to identify organic amendments able to maximize a recovery of soil fertility.
author	Scotti,R Bonanomi,G Scelza,R Zoina,A Rao,M.A
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title	Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems
title_short	Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems
title_full	Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems
title_fullStr	Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems
title_full_unstemmed	Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems
title_sort	organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems
publisher	Chilean Society of Soil Science / Sociedad Chilena de la Ciencia del Suelo
publishDate	2015
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-95162015000200005
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Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems

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