Efeito residual da adubação orgânica com torta de mamona e impactos do reúso de águas no sistema solo-planta.

Abstract

The use of byproducts in agriculture has become quite a promising alternative by providing a destination for the highly-organic waste materiais produced by a variety of human activities, it serves to bolster both environmental and economic factor, providing elevated leveis of nutrients to the plants which, in turn, brings about a reduction in the costs of chemical fertilization. The objective of this study was to evaluate the residual effects of organic fertilization using castor cake as well as the impact of the disposal of treated sewage effluents on the chemical properties of the soil and the development and production of cotton cultivated in succession to a crop of sesame plants. Cotton plants were cultivated in pots which had been previously used for the cultivation of sesame that had been submitted to treatments resulted from the factorial design of five leveis of castor cake in the substrate (0, 2, 3, 4 and 5 ton ha"1), two qualities of irrigation water (potable water and treated domestic effluent) in addition to two additional treatments with chemical fertilization (NPK + potable water and NPK + wastewater). The residual effect of the castor cake and fertilizer sources applied in the first cycle and the inherent impact of the application of the two different sources of irrigation water on the cotton crop and the plant- soil system were evaluated through the determination of growth and cotton production, soil chemical properties and nutritional state of cotton plants at the end of the cycle. It was possible to conclude that the irrigation with wastewater contributed to reduce the soil acidity and elevate phosphorous and potassium contents in the soil and plant. Additionally, the domestic effluent was capable of partially supplying the nitrogen content and completely supplying the leveis of boron and iron required by the plants, contributing to the growth and production of cotton. However, the sodium leveis were elevated plant and soil as a result of irrigation with potable water. The castor cake applied during the first cycle resulted in a residual effect, with the increasing leveis of biofertilizer increasing the organic material content, phosphorous and iron in the soil, in addition to increasing the leaf area, height, dry matter of the aerial part and cotton production during the second cycle.