Agricultural potential of pasture land in southern Tocantins

• Autor(a) principal: Santana da Silva Carneiro, Jefferson; Universidade Federal de Lavras - UFLA
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Barros da Silva, Dayane; Universidade Federal do Tocantins - Campus Gurupi, da Costa Leite, Robson; Universidade Federal do Tocantins - Campus Gurupi, Gonçalves Carline, João Victor; Universidade Federal do Tocantins - Campus Gurupi, Machado Filho, Gilberto Coutinho; Universidade Federal do Tocantins - Campus Gurupi, de Oliveira Lima, Saulo; Universidade Federal do Tocantins - Campus Gurupi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Journal of Bioenergy and Food Science
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ifap.edu.br/index.php/JBFS/article/view/123
• topic: Ciência do Solo; Morfologia e Classificação do Solo; Manejo e Conservação do Solo e Água; Soil. Aptitude. Fertility

Improper soil use leads to inefficient exploitation of natural resources, destruction of land resources, poverty and other social problems. Therefore, the objective of this study was execute a survey and soil classification of an area under pasture in a farm in southern Tocantins. The area was divided according to the existing soil spots to perform the soil classification following the methodology of the Brazilian System of Soil Classification and its agricultural potential. At the studied area were found four soil classes, which were studied and classified as Plintossolo Argilúvico Distrófico petroplíntico, Cambissolo Háplico Tb Eutrófico, Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo Distrófico típico and Gleissolo Melânico Ta Eutrófico with agricultural potential in the subgroups 1(a)bC, 4P, 1aBC and 3(bc), respectively. The terrain was underutilized, being used for pasture cultivation, at the same time it could be used for cultivation of annual plants.