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Excessive use of fertilizer can increase leaching processes and modify soil reserves in two ecuadorian oil palm plantations

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Dubos B., Snoeck D., Flori A.
2016

In the oil palm plantations of Ecuador, two factorial trials (namely CP06 and CP08) were used to assess the effects of N, P and K fertilization on the soil chemical characteristics after 10 years of fertilizer application. The use of ammonia-based fertilizers has resulted in a drop in soil pH, which has reached 1.2 units in one of the two trials. A drop in cation exchange capacity (CEC) was also ...

Fertilisation; Chimie et physique du sol; Erosion, conservation et récupération des sols

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