Effects of different conservation tillage measures on spring maize yield and soil fertility in the Loess Plateau
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DOI:10.7606/j.issn.1000-7601.2011.04.36
Key Words: conservation tillage  spring maize  water use efficiency  soil fertility
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WANG Chanjun College of Forest, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
HAO Mingde Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Mi nistry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
SHE Fengxia College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
BAO Yanjie College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
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Abstract:
      This research is based on the implement of tillage and no-tillage farming with straw mulching, plastic film mulching, straw and plastic film mulching or without mulching to study the changes of spring maize yield and soil fertility. The result shows: On the basis of tillage without mulching spring maize yield is 6 212.75 kg/hm2, straw mulching increases yield by 45.67% compared with no mulching, plastic film mulching increases yield by 47.24%, straw and plastic film mulching increases yield by 73.24%; On the basis of no-tillage with straw mulching the yield increases only by 3.07% compared with no mulching, and plastic film mulching increases yield by 28.91%, while straw and plastic film mulching increases yield by 38.74%. Compared with tillage farming, no-tillage farming increases yield by 19.69% in no mulching condition, but it decreases yield by 15.31% in straw mulching condition. Under the same farming method, water use efficiency trend is straw and plastic film mulching>plastic film mulching>straw mulching>no mulching, water use efficiency of no-tillage farming reduces at an average of 11.56% compared with tillage farming. Soil organic matter content under straw mulching rises by 0.62 g/kg compared with no mulching while that under plastic film mulching drops by 0.30 g/kg. The content of available P under plastic film mulching is the lowest, it declines at an average of 2.93 mg/kg compared with no mulching. The content of available K of no-tillage farming increased 9.54 mg/kg compared with tillage farming, but there is no si gnificant changes of total P.