EFFICIENCY OF PLANTAFOL FERTILIZER IN SOYBEAN CROPS FOR LACK OF NUTRITIONAL ELEMENTS IN HAPLIC CHERNOZEMS

Abstract

The agrochemical composition of chernozems typical of the agrobiological laboratory of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University has been studied and the economic expediency of using complex mineral fertilizer Plantafol 10.54.10 during cultivation of soybeans, to eliminate the shortage of some elements of mineral nutrition and increase crop productivity was analyzed.
It was found that chernozems is characterized by a close to neutral exchange (pH 5.6) and hydrolytic (2.16 mg-eq. / 100 g) reaction, an increased amount of absorbed bases (19.0 mg-eq. / 100 g) and increased rate of saturation of bases (89.8 %), which is typical of agricultural lands with high carbonate content. Сhernozem soil has a low amount of easily hydrolyzed Nitrogen (102.0 mg / kg), an average supply of humus (2.63 %) and mobile Phosphorus (71.0 mg / kg) and a very high level of metabolic Potassium (189.0 mg / kg).
Based on the specified agrochemical composition of the soil, taking into account the peculiarities of mineral nutrition of soybean plants, the importance for the formation of generative organs of Phosphorus and its ability to highly effective symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the study area, it is suggested to eliminate possible shortages of soil nutrients, in the first of Phosphorus, foliar fertilization with Plantafol 10.54.10.
Complex mineral fertilizer Plantafol 10.54.10 contains Nitrogen – 10 %, Phosphorus – 54 %, Potassium – 10 %, as well as trace elements in chelated form EDTA – Boron 0.02 %, Iron – 0, 07 %, Manganese – 0.03 %, Zinc – 0.01 %, Copper – 0.005 %.
It was found that double foliar fertilization with Plantafol 10.54.10 fertilizer at a dose of 3 kg / ha increases the yield of soybean grain cultivar Annushka, which is grown on chernozems typical of agrobiolaboratory, by 0.34 t / ha or 15.5 %. Yield growth was mainly due to a 16.8 % higher biological yield of aboveground mass and an increase in the number of beans on plants – by 15.3 %, seed weight – 16.0 %, total number of seeds – 11.4 %, as well as less pronounced increase in the height of attachment of the lower beans, the density and height of plants in the crop and the weight of 1000 seeds. The length of the fruits and their glazing did not change as affected by fertilizer.
The obtained data allow to offer foliar fertilization with complex fertilizer Plantafol 10.54.10, as one of the elements of the system of soybean fertilization on chernozems with close to neutral reaction, increased amount of absorbed bases, low amount of easily hydrolyzed Nitrogen, average supply of humus and mobile Potassium and a very high level of exchangeable Potassium, which reduces the negative impact of deficiencies in the root nutrition of plants, increases crop productivity and provides additional income of 4078 UAH / ha.