EFFICIENCY OF COMPLEX APPLICATION OF GREEN MANURE WITH BIOFERTILIZERS FOR GROWING MAIZE FOR GRAIN
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https://doi.org/10.32782/naturaljournal.12.2025.26Keywords:
green manure, oil radish, white mustard, bioorganic fertilizers, weediness, yieldAbstract
It has been determined for Ukraine that from the point of view of the formation of optimized fertilization systems, the adaptation of green manure systems through the use of cruciferous green manure plant species – oil radish and white mustard, which are adapted to the soil and climatic conditions of the Forest-Steppe zone – is an urgent task. This method of fertilization, combined with mineral background nutrition, ensures the implementation of the principles of ecologization and biologization and promotes the return to adaptive soil conservation and soil rehabilitation technologies.Over a multi-year research period (2022–2024), the effectiveness of the green manure system with the inclusion of oil radish and white mustard against the background of the use of Organic Balance biofertilizer in the corn fertilization system on gray forest soils typical of the soil cover of the Right-Bank Forest-Steppe zone was determined.According to the results of the research, it was found expedient to use a green manure option for growing corn for grain, which involves the use of Organic Balance biofertilizer at a rate of 2 l/ha in combination with the incorporation, by plowing, of a crushed mass of oil radish and white mustard with a total weight of 18 t/ha against the background of fertilizer at a rate of N60P60K60. The use of this technological variant allowed to reduce the overall level of weed infestation of corn by 49,4% (wet weight of weeds) and 55,0% (dry weight of weeds) and ensured the achievement of a yield of 8,18 t/ha with an increase to the control without green manure and the use of biofertilizer of 21,2%.
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