Potential for increasing soil nutrient availability via soil organic matter Improvement using pseudo panel data

Fixed and random effect models were applied to a pseudo-panel data built of soil analysis reports from tobacco farms to analyze relationships between soil characteristics like soil organic matter (SOM) and soil nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K) and to explore the potential for improvin...

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Autores principales: Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela, Berentsen, Paulus Bernardus Maria, Oenema, Oene, Oude Lansink, Alfons Gerard Joseph Maria
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/4192
https://file.scirp.org/Html/11-3000757_48180.htm
https://doi.org/10.4236/as.2014.58078
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author Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela
Berentsen, Paulus Bernardus Maria
Oenema, Oene
Oude Lansink, Alfons Gerard Joseph Maria
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Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela
Oenema, Oene
Oude Lansink, Alfons Gerard Joseph Maria
author_facet Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela
Berentsen, Paulus Bernardus Maria
Oenema, Oene
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description Fixed and random effect models were applied to a pseudo-panel data built of soil analysis reports from tobacco farms to analyze relationships between soil characteristics like soil organic matter (SOM) and soil nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K) and to explore the potential for improving nutrients availability by increasing SOM content. These econometric models may account for unobserved specific characteristics such as location-specific characteristics, management strategies, farmers’ skills and preferences and environmental heterogeneity. Positive relationships were found between N, P and K availability and SOM. The random effect model reports a highly significant elasticity of N with respect to SOM of 0.75, meaning that an increase of 1% of SOM will increase soil N by 0.75%. Using this elasticity, the required SOM improvement of green manure was calculated at which costs of green manure would exactly equal benefits in terms of reduced N fertilizer use. Costs and benefits are equal if the SOM increases from 1.55% to 3.61%, which is barely achieved according to the literature. Hence, growing green manure crops to increase SOM and thereby N availability is not economically attractive. However, additional benefits may arise from SOM improvement and growing green manure crops.
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spelling INTA41922019-01-02T17:49:29Z Potential for increasing soil nutrient availability via soil organic matter Improvement using pseudo panel data Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela Berentsen, Paulus Bernardus Maria Oenema, Oene Oude Lansink, Alfons Gerard Joseph Maria Disponibilidad Nutrientes (Suelo) Materia Orgánica del Suelo Degradación del Suelo Abonos Verdes Nutrient Availability (Soil) Soil Organic Matter Soil Degradation Green Manures Fixed and random effect models were applied to a pseudo-panel data built of soil analysis reports from tobacco farms to analyze relationships between soil characteristics like soil organic matter (SOM) and soil nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K) and to explore the potential for improving nutrients availability by increasing SOM content. These econometric models may account for unobserved specific characteristics such as location-specific characteristics, management strategies, farmers’ skills and preferences and environmental heterogeneity. Positive relationships were found between N, P and K availability and SOM. The random effect model reports a highly significant elasticity of N with respect to SOM of 0.75, meaning that an increase of 1% of SOM will increase soil N by 0.75%. Using this elasticity, the required SOM improvement of green manure was calculated at which costs of green manure would exactly equal benefits in terms of reduced N fertilizer use. Costs and benefits are equal if the SOM increases from 1.55% to 3.61%, which is barely achieved according to the literature. Hence, growing green manure crops to increase SOM and thereby N availability is not economically attractive. However, additional benefits may arise from SOM improvement and growing green manure crops. EEA Salta Fil: Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Salta; Argentina Fil: Berentsen, Paulus Bernardus Maria. Wageningen University. Department of Social Sciences. Business Economics Group; Holanda Fil: Oenema, Oene. Wageningen University. Environmental Sciences Group. Soil Quality; Holanda Fil: Oude Lansink, Alfons Gerard Joseph Maria. Wageningen University. Department of Social Sciences. Business Economics Group; Holanda 2019-01-02T17:31:19Z 2019-01-02T17:31:19Z 2014-07 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/4192 https://file.scirp.org/Html/11-3000757_48180.htm 2156-8553 2156-8561 https://doi.org/10.4236/as.2014.58078 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Scientific Research Publishing Agricultural sciences 5 (8) : ID:48180. (2014)
spellingShingle Disponibilidad Nutrientes (Suelo)
Materia Orgánica del Suelo
Degradación del Suelo
Abonos Verdes
Nutrient Availability (Soil)
Soil Organic Matter
Soil Degradation
Green Manures
Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela
Berentsen, Paulus Bernardus Maria
Oenema, Oene
Oude Lansink, Alfons Gerard Joseph Maria
Potential for increasing soil nutrient availability via soil organic matter Improvement using pseudo panel data
title Potential for increasing soil nutrient availability via soil organic matter Improvement using pseudo panel data
title_full Potential for increasing soil nutrient availability via soil organic matter Improvement using pseudo panel data
title_fullStr Potential for increasing soil nutrient availability via soil organic matter Improvement using pseudo panel data
title_full_unstemmed Potential for increasing soil nutrient availability via soil organic matter Improvement using pseudo panel data
title_short Potential for increasing soil nutrient availability via soil organic matter Improvement using pseudo panel data
title_sort potential for increasing soil nutrient availability via soil organic matter improvement using pseudo panel data
topic Disponibilidad Nutrientes (Suelo)
Materia Orgánica del Suelo
Degradación del Suelo
Abonos Verdes
Nutrient Availability (Soil)
Soil Organic Matter
Soil Degradation
Green Manures
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/4192
https://file.scirp.org/Html/11-3000757_48180.htm
https://doi.org/10.4236/as.2014.58078
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