Long-term productive, competitive, and economic aspects of spring cereal mixtures in integrated and organic crop rotations

13Citations
Citations of this article
14Readers
Mendeley users who have this article in their library.

Abstract

Cultivation of spring cereal mixtures (SCMs) is one of the ways to increase the yield of crops in mountainous areas of Poland. There are only a few current long-term studies on this topic. Our study aimed at analyzing yield and competitiveness as well as the economic indicators of spring cereals in pure or mixed sowings in integrated or organic crop rotations over nine years. A field experiment including pure sowings of oats, spring barley, or spring triticale and their two-component SCMs, each in two systems, organic and integrated crop rotation, was carried out in the Mountainous Experimental Station in Czyrna, Poland, in the years 2011–2019. On average, cereals in the pure sowings and mixtures yielded 18% lower in the organic rotations compared with the integrated ones. However, SCMs yielded higher than the pure sowings, and displayed a higher leaf area index and land equivalent ratio. The average gross margin without subsidies was almost two times higher in the organic crop rotations than in the integrated ones, which was influenced mainly by the cultivation of barley in pure sowing. Summing up, the cultivation of SCMs in the mountainous areas of southern Poland is advised because of both productive and economic factors.

Cite

CITATION STYLE

APA

Klima, K., Synowiec, A., Puła, J., Chowaniak, M., Pużyńska, K., Gala-Czekaj, D., … Lepiarczyk, A. (2020). Long-term productive, competitive, and economic aspects of spring cereal mixtures in integrated and organic crop rotations. Agriculture (Switzerland), 10(6), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10060231

Register to see more suggestions

Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.

Already have an account?

Save time finding and organizing research with Mendeley

Sign up for free