Conservation Tillage Practices in Organic Vineyard
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2009
Yazarlar: ÇAKIR, Engin, Harun YALÇIN, ATEŞ, Fadime
\n Volume: 5, Issue: 3\n 359-363\n \n, Uluslararası, 2009
Özet
For sustainable agriculture, conservation tillage applications are used widely in the world. Only recently, some conservational tillage practices are applied in vineyards for sustainable viticulture. Although these practices are not common in Turkey, yet, some farmers starting to apply conservation tillage or even no-tillage in the vineyards due to increasing fuel costs and for environmental purposes. The objective of this research was to examine the conservation tillage effects on organic grape production. The research was carried out in Alasehir Viticulture Research Centre located in the West side of Turkey. In this research, conventional tillage and two conservation tillage methods; Mulch tillage and cultivator with rotary harrow were used. The effect of tillage methods on the soil physical properties such as bulk density and penetration resistance was examined. Tillage speed, fuel consumptions, and tillage efficiency were measured for the effectiveness of the tillage method. According to the results, tillage methods were found statistically significant for bulk density, penetration resistance of the soil and plant yield at 5% significant level. Although minimum fuel consumption was obtained (39,31 l ha ) in much tillage comparing the other methods, cultivator tillage system was selected as the best method since it provided less fuel consumption (51,21 l ha ) comparing the conventional tillage method (71,21 l ha ) and had maximum field efficiency of 0,104 ha h comparing the other methods. This research covers some parts of main project supported by research fund of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and carried out in the years of 2005-2007.