Sustainable soil management in the Badacsony Wine District

Authors

  • Barnabas Kovacs

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19040/ecocycles.v4i2.115

Keywords:

vineyard, cover crop, agricultural landscape management, soil biology, sustainability

Abstract

Agricultural landscapes with historical hillside vineyard cultivation have a touristic, economic, and environmental value in the Balaton uplands. However, sustainable cultivation methods are becoming increasingly important within today's adaptation to climate change impacts on these lands much exposed to erosion. Our long-term field experiment compared the effects of several soil-cover methods in several aspects. We recorded and examined the consequent changes in the physical (soil moisture), chemical (absorbable nitrogen content), biological (enzyme activity: fluorescein diacetate hydrolysis and dehydrogenase), the most probable number of bacteria and fungi), and economic (yield) parameters of soils. According to our results in 2017, mulching with organic plant wastes achieved the most positive effect on the parameters studied and also efficiently reduced erosion in the plantation.

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Published

2018-06-05

How to Cite

Kovacs, B. (2018). Sustainable soil management in the Badacsony Wine District. Ecocycles, 4(2), 80–84. https://doi.org/10.19040/ecocycles.v4i2.115

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2018)

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Articles

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