Abstract:
Objective It aims to provide a theoretical basis for improving the soil quality with organic fertilizers in view of the problems of soil fertility decline and soil carbon (C) pool imbalance caused by continuous cropping of peanuts and application of chemical fertilizers.
Method Four completely random block groups were established in monocultured peanut fields which had been continuously cropped for 5 years. Four treatments were carried out with earthworm feces-combined with chemical fertilizer (VM), "NMM" bacterial fertilizer combined with chemical fertilizer (BF), chemical fertilizer alone (CF) and control without fertilizer (CK). The effects of four treatments on soil integrated fertility Index (IFI), soil active organic C content and efficiency, and C pool management indices were compared at the pod forming stage of peanut.
Result The results showed that organic fertilizer significantly improved soil integrated fertility index (IFI), the contents of soil total organic C (TOC), easily oxidizable organic C (ROC), microbial biomass C (MBC), mineralizable organic C (MOC), and soil C pool management index (CPMI) with the most significant effect in the VM treatment (P < 0.05). The effective rates of MBC, MOC and DOC in organic fertilizer treatment were significantly lower compared with CK and CF. Redundancy and correlation analysis showed that organic fertilizer was significantly positively correlated with the contents of TOC and each soil active organic C, and was negatively correlated with the effective rate of soil active C components except ROC. CPMI was significantly (P < 0.05) or extremely significantly (P < 0.01) positively correlated with ROC, MBC, DOC and MOC.
Conclusion The reasonable organic fertilizer can not only increase the content of soil active C, but also contribute to the accumulation of inactive organic C. Organic fertilization is of great significance to the improvement of soil integrated fertility and soil C storage capacity in continuous cropping peanut fields and alleviate the obstacles in continuous cropping.