Manejo Fitotécnico de Culturas Leguminosas e Oleaginosas

Abstract

Several techniques, which are considered strategic, have been added to the process productive, mainly those that offer maintenance or improvement of environmental conditions, highlighting green manure. Established fertilization green as a habit by which suitable plants are aggregated or preserved in coverage, before they complete their vegetative cycle, to maintain or increase the capacity soil productivity (AMABLEE, ETAL, 1996). In common, legumes are preferred as green fertilizers due to their ability to utilization of atmospheric nitrogen, through the deep root system, high production of biomass and lower C/N ratio, beneficial to decomposition however, plants from other families can be used for this purpose, especially if the objective is to maintenance of soil cover, and not the incorporation of residues into the soil (MENEZES, LEANDRO, 2004).