TY  - JOUR
T1  - Possibilities of Maize Cropping for Feed on Acid Soil
AU - Dragicevic, Vesna AU - Pandurovic, Zeljko AU - Glamoclija, Djordje AU - Dumanovic, Zoran 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 12
IS  - 7
SP  - 813
EP  - 822
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2013.813.822
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2013.813.822
KW  - Soil acidity
KW  -maize
KW  -yield parameters
KW  -liming
KW  -fertilization
KW  -crops
AB  - Soil acidity is a limiting factor which affects growth, height 
  and yield stability of many crops grown for food and feed all over the world. 
  To combat soil acidity many measures were introduced: Acidity decrease with 
  lime application with or without improvement with manure development or development 
  of germplasm tolerant to acid soils. In this study, researchers examined influence 
  of different cropping measures on productive characteristics of maize grown 
  for feed on acid soil in rain-fed conditions. Cropping measures included fertilization 
  (mineral fertilizers, lime and farmyard manure) and two cropping densities (54,900 
  and 59,500 plants ha<SUP>-1</SUP>). Positive effects of liming were reflected 
  at first on increase of pH values, particularly pH in KCl but it could increase 
  available P and decrease exchangeable H<SUP>+</SUP> and Al<SUP>3+</SUP>. Meteorological 
  factors showed the significant impact on variations of maize growth and yielding 
  parameters. Genotype also highly influenced maize growth, so hybrid with the 
  highest height to tassel and to ear had the lowest average yield. Due to its 
  height, this hybrid could be potentially appropriate for forage production. 
  Treatments which include lime increased growth, yielding and their interdependence 
  also. Favourable meteorological conditions increased variation of growth parameters 
  between applied treatments, giving advantage to treatment with mineral fertilizer 
  + lime + farmyard manure while unfavourable conditions suppress such variation, 
  together with decrease of examined parameters. Higher yield potential obtained 
  in variant with mineral fertilizer + lime under unfavourable conditions may 
  suggest that manure incorporation could be inefficient measure for gaining high 
  grain yields under this conditions.
ER  -