Changes in the properties of a Mexican Fluvisol following 30 years of sugarcane cultivation

F., J. Naranjo de la; Salgado-García, Sergio; Lagunes-Espinoza, Luz del Carmen; Carrillo-Ávila, Eugenio; Palma-López, David Jesús

doi:10.1016/j.still.2005.05.006

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“…Changes in management practices were recommended to counteract the decline in soil quality and improve soil health in general. Similarly, sugarcane grown in monoculture for up to 30 years in Mexico was also found to cause significant changes in soil properties, including a decrease in soil organic C, total N and P (Naranjo de la et al , 2006). However, in this case the decline in soil fertility did not affect the sugarcane yield, and lack of yield decline in Mexican systems was attributed to the adoption of recommended cultural practices, including using a combination of manual and chemical weed control and a revision of the fertilisation rates, particularly N and P (Naranjo de la et al , 2006).…”

Section: Yield Declinementioning

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Meeting the demand for crop production: the challenge of yield decline in crops grown in short rotations

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There is a trend world-wide to grow crops in short rotation or in monoculture, particularly in conventional agriculture. This practice is becoming more prevalent due to a range of factors including economic market trends, technological advances, government incentives, and retailer and consumer demands. Land-use intensity will have to increase further in future in order to meet the demands of growing crops for both bioenergy and food production, and long rotations may not be considered viable or practical. However, evidence indicates that crops grown in short rotations or monoculture often suffer from yield decline compared to those grown in longer rotations or for the first time. Numerous factors have been hypothesised as contributing to yield decline, including biotic factors such as plant pathogens, deleterious rhizosphere microorganisms, mycorrhizas acting as pathogens, and allelopathy or autotoxicity of the crop, as well as abiotic factors such as land management practices and nutrient availability. In many cases, soil microorganisms have been implicated either directly or indirectly in yield decline. Although individual factors may be responsible for yield decline in some cases, it is more likely that combinations of factors interact to cause the problem. However, evidence confirming the precise role of these various factors is often lacking in field studies due to the complex nature of cropping systems and the numerous interactions that take place within them. Despite long-term knowledge of the yield-decline phenomenon, there are few tools to counteract it apart from reverting to longer crop rotations or break crops. Alternative cropping and management practices such as double-cropping or inter-cropping, tillage and organic amendments may prove valuable for combating some of the negative effects seen when crops are grown in short rotation. Plant breeding continues to be important, although this does require a specific breeding target to be identified. This review identifies gaps in our understanding of yield decline, particularly with respect to the complex interactions occurring between the different components of agro-ecosystems, which may well influence food security in the 21(st) Century.

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Section: Yield Declinementioning

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Meeting the demand for crop production: the challenge of yield decline in crops grown in short rotations

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“…Incorporation of crop residues into soils usually improves SOM and STN (Liu et al, 1991;Rasmussen and Parton, 1994;Franzluebbers et al, 1996;Fischer et al, 2002;Naranjo de la et al, 2006;Karlen et al, 2006). Incorporation of corn straws and roots made about 1440 kg ha − 1 of organic carbon returned into soil (Liu et al, 1991).…”

Section: Incorporation Of Crop Residues Into Soilsmentioning

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Temporal and spatial variability of soil organic matter and total nitrogen in an agricultural ecosystem as affected by farming practices

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“…Soil carbon content is another problem that received much attention in the literature; Carbon content change in soils under long-term sugarcane has been reported in the literature (Naranjo et al, 2006;Alaban, 1990;Cerri and Andreux, 1990;Masilaca et al, 1985) and compared to different natural land uses and agricultural cropping patterns (Brackin et al, 2013;Queiroz Rossi et al, 2013;Holst et al, 2012;Souza et al, 2012;Galdos et al, 2009;Sant'Anna et al, 2009;Campos et al, 2007;Silva et al, 2007;Cerri and Andreux, 1990) under different soils (Holst et al, 2012;Pankhurst et al, 2005; adopting different agricultural practices (Queiroz Rossi et al, 2013;Souza et al, 2012;Stirling et al, 2010;Galdos et al, 2009;Sant'Anna et al, 2009;Graham and Haynes, 2005a;Graham and Haynes, 2005b;Pankhurst et al, 2005;Pankhurst et al, 2003;Graham et al, 2002;Yadav et al, 1994). Most of the studies assessed different components of carbon in the soil such as the total carbon content, organic carbon content, mineralised carbon content, etc., but few studies e.g.…”

Section: Soil Chemical Propertiesmentioning

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What are the Impacts of Sugarcane Production on Ecosystem Services? A Review

Chami¹,

Daccache²,

Moujabber³

2020

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Since the 1950s sugarcane production has grown rapidly from less than 0.5 billion tonnes in the late 50s to reach over 1.9 billion tonnes in 2012 on about 27 million hectares of agricultural land. This expansion has been boosted by the high demand for bioethanol promoted as a sustainable bioenergy source which accounted in 2010 for the biggest share of the global biofuel market. Despite its benefits, the scientific debate on sugar is growing especially that counterarguments are so many, including negative impacts on different interacting ecosystems and human well-being, e.g. bigger stress on land and water resources, environmental externalities on air, a harmful impact on the biodiversity and endemic species, negative environmental externalities, health, and socio-economic aspects. This paper provides a narrative systematic review (SR) of the impacts of sugarcane production on these different ecosystems employing the ecosystem services framework for its acceptance by policy-makers. The references included for the SR were 163 and results showed that the majority of the studies are from Brazil, Australia, South Africa and the USA (≈ 75% of the literature), most of them were from peer-reviewed journals (85%), and most of the case studies adopted a quantitative research approach (93%). The literature assessed showed that sugarcane, like all agro-systems, depends on the practices and techniques to transform negative impacts into positive externalities on ecosystems and human well-being. However, the literature studied failed to include the inter-linkage in sugarcane production impacts’ and therefore to evaluate the related ecosystem services with respect to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) framework to account for existing trade-offs. Therefore, the findings are addressed to the scientific community and decision-maker for an intensification of interdisciplinary and integrated research based on the MA framework to cover all ecosystem services, for sustainable development of the sugarcane sector.

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Changes in the properties of a Mexican Fluvisol following 30 years of sugarcane cultivation

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

Meeting the demand for crop production: the challenge of yield decline in crops grown in short rotations

Meeting the demand for crop production: the challenge of yield decline in crops grown in short rotations

Temporal and spatial variability of soil organic matter and total nitrogen in an agricultural ecosystem as affected by farming practices

What are the Impacts of Sugarcane Production on Ecosystem Services? A Review

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