Manejo fitotécnico de culturas leguminosas e oleaginosas.

Abstract

Cover crops or cover crops are recent terms related to Conservation Agriculture, used to designate different species of green manure used to form the straw layer and cover the soil CALEGARI (2014). According to Wutke, Calegari and Wildner (2014), the availability of several species of cover crops, adapted to different agroclimatic conditions, helps to maintain biodiversity and diversify agricultural products, with a reduction in costs, environmental and economic risks and with the effective maintenance of sustainability, in any agricultural activity, apud Angeletti et.al (2017). Sustainable production derives from the balance between plants, soils, nutrients, sunlight, moisture and other coexisting organisms. The agroecosystem is productive and healthy when these rich and balanced growth conditions prevail, and when the plants are able to tolerate stress and adversity (ALTIERI, 2004). Native to India and Pakistan, sunn hemp is a fast-growing legume, especially in high temperature conditions, being an excellent crop for green manure, it has about 690 known species and C. Ochroleuca is preferred for increasing soil quality , for its ability to quickly add Nitrogen and organic matter to the soil. (Valenzuela & Smith, 2002).