Lixiviação de fósforo, bases, ânions inorgânicos e ácidos orgânicos em solos tratados com camas de aviário

• Autor(a) principal: Gebrim, Fabrício de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/5548
• topic: Nível crítico ambiental; Fósforo orgânico; Fósforo inorgânico; Acetato; Propianato; Sulfato; Cloreto; Eluviação; Environmental critical level; Organic phosphorus; Inorganic phosphorus; Acetate; Sulphate; Chloride; Leaching; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::CIENCIA DO SOLO

The use of animal dejects in Brazilian agriculture is increasing in recent years due to the expansion of animal farms impelled by exportation of meat to international markets. Bird housing is amongst those activities that have experienced the largest growth. The litter generated in this activity used to be largely employed to feed cows. However, the enactment of a law that prohibited the use of poultry litter as animal feeds intensified its use as organic fertilizer in agriculture. Despite its importance, there are gaps in our knowledge regarding its adequate use in order to obtain high plant yields without threatening the environment. The present work aimed at evaluating the leaching of P, Ca, Mg, K and Na on columns of soils fertilized with poultry litter. There were two experiments. In the first experiment each column was constituted by five PVC rings with 5 cm diameter and 10 cm height bound to each other with adhesive, and with an impermeable interior. The columns were filled with two soil types: a clayey Red-Yellow Latosol and a sandy loam Red-Yellow Latosol. The soils had previously received four doses of P as KH2PO4 in order to achieve 0, 12.5, 25.0 and 50% of the maximum P adsorption capacity (CMAP). The P source was homogenized with the whole soil volume and incubated for 60 days. After this period the soils were accommodated in the columns and five poultry litter rates equivalent to 0, 20, 40, 80, and 160 t ha-1 (dry weight basis) were mixed with the soil of the top ring. Five poultry litter rates were applied on the top of the column. Treatments consisted of a 4 x 5 x 2 factorial scheme corresponding to four levels of CMAP saturation, five poultry litter doses and two soils, with three replications, and arranged in a complete randomized block design. The columns were submitted to 10 percolations of deionized water in a 35 day period in order to simulate a 1.200 mm rainfall. In the percolated water it was determined inorganic P (reactive P, Pi) and organic P forms (unreactive P, Po). In the eighth percolation water, total P was fractionated in dissolved P (fraction that passed a 0.45 µm filter) and particulate P (retained in the 0.45 µm filter). At the end of the experiment, the columns were disassembled and P in the soil of each ring was extracted with Mehlich-1 (HCl 0.05 mol L-1 and H2SO4 0.0125 mol L-1) and Olsen (NaHCO3 0.5 mol L-1, pH 8.5) extractors. For the Olsen soil extracts it was measured the Pi and Po fractions. It was found that increasing the poultry litter dose led to losses of unreactive P (Po) 6.4 times greater than that of reactive P (Pi). Both the previous P fertilization and increasing poultry litter doses caused the vertical movement of P in the soil columns, which reflected in P concentrations in Mehlich 1 and Olsen extracts. The environmental critical level (NCA), the concentration of P in the soil above which the leaching of P increases exponentially, was around 100 and 150 mg dm-3 by Mehlich 1 and 40 and 60 mg dm-3 by Olsen, for the sandy loam and clayey soils, respectively. In highly weathered soils the accumulation of residual P along the cultivations there can be significant P leaching through the profile, especially when they are fertilized with poultry litter. In the second experiment it was evaluated the effect of poultry litter on Ca, Mg and K leaching and its relationship with inorganic and low molecular mass organic anions. Samples of two Oxisols (a clayey and a sandy loam Red-Yellow Latosol) were accommodated in PVC columns similar to those used in experiment 1. Five types of poultry litters (coffee peels, ground corn cob, rice husk, napier grass and wood shavings) were homogenously applied to the soil of the top ring in a dose equivalent to 160 t ha-1 (dry weight basis). There also was a control treatment with no poultry litter application. The treatments consisted of a 5 x 2 factorial scheme, corresponding to five poultry litter types and two soil with distinct textures, with five replications, arranged in a complete randomized block design. Twice a week the columns received 10 applications of deionized water twice a week in a total volume corresponding to a rainfall equivalent to 1.200 mm. The leachates were analyzed for cations such as Ca, Mg, K and Na, and for anions such as Cl-, NO3 -and SO4 2- and low molecular mass organic acids by ion chromatography. The results indicate that there was great leaching of bases through the soil columns, particularly up to the third percolation. This fact was probably a result of the high dose of poultry litter and the presence of accompanying anions: Cl-, NO3 - and SO4 2- in the sandy loam soil and Cl- and NO3- in the soil clayey soil. Much less expressive was the complexing effect of organic acid ligands. The effect of acetic acid favoring the leaching of bases probably was a result of its action as an accompanying anion.