Evaluation of the quality of soils of fruit systems in the Central Zone of Chile
Abstract
The central zone of Chile has the highest percentage of fruit trees per planted area. These agri-cultural systems have caused a change in their natural fertility, productivity and properties; concomitantly, loss of quality. To find and identify suitable management practices for fruit crops, the evaluation method related to soil quality has the greatest influence. The main objective of this study was to generate soil quality indexes (ICS) for fruit systems in the Central Zone of Chile, based on physical, chemical and biological properties of soil in Regions IV and VI. With these properties, through a factorial analysis, the indicators were selected and normalized in an ICS through linear and non-linear functions. The general results show that the indicators with the highest final weight in the IV Region were electrical conductivity, organic carbon, total N, exchangeable Na, S available, clay and sand. While the indicators in the VI Region were CIC, clay, available K, Ca and Mg interchangeable. With respect to soil quality, Regions IV and VI showed an SQI of 0.15 and 0.17, respectively. These values did not show significant differences (p = 0.2613).Metrics
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