Effects of different conservation tillage measures on soil fertility, WUE and yield in winter wheat-spring maize rotation field of Weibei Highland
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DOI:10.7606/j.issn.1000-7601.2011.04.37
Key Words: Weibei Highland  conservation tillage  crop rotation  soil nutrient  water use efficiency  yield
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ZHANG Lihua College of Agronomy, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
LI Jun College of Agronomy, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
JIA Zhikuan College of Agronomy, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
LIU Bingfeng College of Agronomy, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
ZHAO Hongli College of Agronomy, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
SHANG Jinxia College of Forestry, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
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Abstract:
      A continuous experiment was conducted in Weibei Highland in 2007~2010 to investigate effects of three soil conservation tillage measures, namely no-tillage(NT), sub-soiling(SS) and deep-ploughing(DP), on soil nutrient, water use efficiency (WUE) and crop yields under the rotation mode of winter wheat→spring maize, combined with balance fertilization, traditional fertilization and no (or low) fertilization treatments. The results indicated that, the nutrient of loam increased with the implementation of conservation tillage measures; the sequence of the soil organic matter content changed from NT>SS>DP at the beginning of the experiment gradually into SS>NT>DP; and the content of alkali-hydro nitrogen, available P content and available K in surface soil under balanced fertilization condition was in order of NT>SS>DP, and that under conventional fertilization condition and low (no) fertilization condition was SS>NT>DP, while that in SS treatment under both balanced fertilization and conventional fertilization conditions was the highest one of three different tillage treatments in middle of soil; the WUE and crop yields of rotation field were in order of SS>DP>NT in the same fertilization treatment, and that under BSS (balanced fertilization and sub-soiling) treatment combination was the highest one of 9 treatments, BDP(balanced fertilization and deep ploughing) treatment combination was in the second place. No matter combination with any fertilization treatment of the rotation mode of winter wheat-spring maize, sub-soiling tillage improved the soil nutrient, fertilizer use efficiency, WUE and crop yield significantly.