Improving resource productivity at a crop sequence level

The challenge to increase agricultural production with a minimum environmental impact requires to reach the maximum efficiency in the capture and use of resources such as photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), water, and nitrogen (N). Such requisites are encompassed in the ecological intensifica...

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Main Authors: Caviglia, Octavio, Rizzalli, Roberto H., Monzon, Juan Pablo, Garcia, Fernando, Melchiori, Ricardo Jose, Martinez, Juan José, Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro, Irigoyen, Andrea Inés, Barbieri, Pablo, Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica, Andrade, Fernando Hector
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Online Access:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037842901831709X
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/4743
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2019.02.011
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author Caviglia, Octavio
Rizzalli, Roberto H.
Monzon, Juan Pablo
Garcia, Fernando
Melchiori, Ricardo Jose
Martinez, Juan José
Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro
Irigoyen, Andrea Inés
Barbieri, Pablo
Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica
Andrade, Fernando Hector
author_browse Andrade, Fernando Hector
Barbieri, Pablo
Caviglia, Octavio
Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro
Garcia, Fernando
Irigoyen, Andrea Inés
Martinez, Juan José
Melchiori, Ricardo Jose
Monzon, Juan Pablo
Rizzalli, Roberto H.
Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica
author_facet Caviglia, Octavio
Rizzalli, Roberto H.
Monzon, Juan Pablo
Garcia, Fernando
Melchiori, Ricardo Jose
Martinez, Juan José
Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro
Irigoyen, Andrea Inés
Barbieri, Pablo
Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica
Andrade, Fernando Hector
author_sort Caviglia, Octavio
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description The challenge to increase agricultural production with a minimum environmental impact requires to reach the maximum efficiency in the capture and use of resources such as photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), water, and nitrogen (N). Such requisites are encompassed in the ecological intensification (EI) concept. The aims of this work were to evaluate at a crop sequence level: i) crops yields, ii) water and radiation productivity and its components, i.e. resource capture and resource use efficiency, and iii) partial factor productivity of applied N (PFPN), partial nutrient balance for N (PNB), N uptake and N utilization efficiency of a two-year, three-crop sequence (wheat [Triticum aestivum L.]/soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] double crop – maize [Zea mays L.]) carried-out under EI principles in comparison with the same crop sequence under current farmer practices (FP) in two contrasting locations of the Argentinean Pampas, i.e. Paraná (-31°50′; -60°31′) at the northern Pampas and Balcarce (-37°45′, -58°18′) at the southern Pampas. Experiments were carried-out during four consecutive years, covering two complete cycles of the crop sequence. For the accumulated grain production of the crop sequence, EI management outyielded FP from 13 to 42%, depending on environmental conditions. Maize yield accounted for most of the variation (41–64%) of the accumulated grain yield of crop sequence, whether in EI as in FP. Average grain yield differences between EI and FP treatments were 274 g m−2 for maize, 69 g m−2 for wheat and -2 g m−2 for soybean. Water and radiation productivities of the sequence were higher in EI than in FP (26% for water and 17% for radiation; P < 0.0001), mainly because of increases in resource use efficiencies. EI reduced partial factor productivity of applied N, but improved partial nutrient balance for N as compared with FP. These reductions in partial factor productivity of applied N were less than proportional than the increases in N rate. Moreover, in spite of the higher N rate in EI respect to FP, N utilization efficiency (NutE), i.e. grain per unit N uptake, was higher across all situations in EI. Our results showed that the challenge to obtain high grain yields by increasing N rate in a medium-input system could be achieved even with an increase in NutE. Grain yields improvements, and increases in radiation and water productivity were reached by applying a set of agronomic practices that included improved genetics, crop and fertilizer N management englobed under EI concept.
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spelling INTA47432019-06-12T15:36:11Z Improving resource productivity at a crop sequence level Caviglia, Octavio Rizzalli, Roberto H. Monzon, Juan Pablo Garcia, Fernando Melchiori, Ricardo Jose Martinez, Juan José Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro Irigoyen, Andrea Inés Barbieri, Pablo Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica Andrade, Fernando Hector Cultivos Productividad Maíz Soja Trigo Ordenación de Recursos Crops Productivity Maize Soybeans Wheat Improvement Resource Management The challenge to increase agricultural production with a minimum environmental impact requires to reach the maximum efficiency in the capture and use of resources such as photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), water, and nitrogen (N). Such requisites are encompassed in the ecological intensification (EI) concept. The aims of this work were to evaluate at a crop sequence level: i) crops yields, ii) water and radiation productivity and its components, i.e. resource capture and resource use efficiency, and iii) partial factor productivity of applied N (PFPN), partial nutrient balance for N (PNB), N uptake and N utilization efficiency of a two-year, three-crop sequence (wheat [Triticum aestivum L.]/soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] double crop – maize [Zea mays L.]) carried-out under EI principles in comparison with the same crop sequence under current farmer practices (FP) in two contrasting locations of the Argentinean Pampas, i.e. Paraná (-31°50′; -60°31′) at the northern Pampas and Balcarce (-37°45′, -58°18′) at the southern Pampas. Experiments were carried-out during four consecutive years, covering two complete cycles of the crop sequence. For the accumulated grain production of the crop sequence, EI management outyielded FP from 13 to 42%, depending on environmental conditions. Maize yield accounted for most of the variation (41–64%) of the accumulated grain yield of crop sequence, whether in EI as in FP. Average grain yield differences between EI and FP treatments were 274 g m−2 for maize, 69 g m−2 for wheat and -2 g m−2 for soybean. Water and radiation productivities of the sequence were higher in EI than in FP (26% for water and 17% for radiation; P < 0.0001), mainly because of increases in resource use efficiencies. EI reduced partial factor productivity of applied N, but improved partial nutrient balance for N as compared with FP. These reductions in partial factor productivity of applied N were less than proportional than the increases in N rate. Moreover, in spite of the higher N rate in EI respect to FP, N utilization efficiency (NutE), i.e. grain per unit N uptake, was higher across all situations in EI. Our results showed that the challenge to obtain high grain yields by increasing N rate in a medium-input system could be achieved even with an increase in NutE. Grain yields improvements, and increases in radiation and water productivity were reached by applying a set of agronomic practices that included improved genetics, crop and fertilizer N management englobed under EI concept. EEA Paraná Fil: Caviglia, Octavio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Paraná; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Rizzalli, Roberto H. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina Fil: Monzon, Juan Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina Fil: Garcia, Fernando. IPNI Latinoamérica; Argentina Fil: Melchiori, Ricardo Jose. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Paraná; Argentina Fil: Martinez, Juan José. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce; Argentina Fil: Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce; Argentina. Fil: IIrigoyen, Andrea Inés. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina Fil: Barbieri, Pablo Andres. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce. Unidad Integrada. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina. Fil: Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Paraná; Argentina Fil: Andrade, Fernando Hector. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce; Argentina. 2019-03-26T14:24:56Z 2019-03-26T14:24:56Z 2019-04 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037842901831709X http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/4743 0378-4290 1872-6852 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2019.02.011 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess application/pdf Elsevier Field Crops Research 235 : 129-141 (April 2019)
spellingShingle Cultivos
Productividad
Maíz
Soja
Trigo
Ordenación de Recursos
Crops
Productivity
Maize
Soybeans
Wheat
Improvement
Resource Management
Caviglia, Octavio
Rizzalli, Roberto H.
Monzon, Juan Pablo
Garcia, Fernando
Melchiori, Ricardo Jose
Martinez, Juan José
Cerrudo, Aníbal Alejandro
Irigoyen, Andrea Inés
Barbieri, Pablo
Van Opstal, Natalia Veronica
Andrade, Fernando Hector
Improving resource productivity at a crop sequence level
title Improving resource productivity at a crop sequence level
title_full Improving resource productivity at a crop sequence level
title_fullStr Improving resource productivity at a crop sequence level
title_full_unstemmed Improving resource productivity at a crop sequence level
title_short Improving resource productivity at a crop sequence level
title_sort improving resource productivity at a crop sequence level
topic Cultivos
Productividad
Maíz
Soja
Trigo
Ordenación de Recursos
Crops
Productivity
Maize
Soybeans
Wheat
Improvement
Resource Management
url https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037842901831709X
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/4743
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2019.02.011
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