Improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / Izzatul Akmal Azmi

Oil palm plantation usually planted in the deep, well drained and fertile fine soil to clay loams and less planted on peat soil due to it poor physical and chemical characteristics. Hence, it is important to improve the physical as well as chemical properties of peat soils to ensure the oil palm pla...

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Main Author: Azmi, Izzatul Akmal
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22603/
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description Oil palm plantation usually planted in the deep, well drained and fertile fine soil to clay loams and less planted on peat soil due to it poor physical and chemical characteristics. Hence, it is important to improve the physical as well as chemical properties of peat soils to ensure the oil palm planted is thrive well in such soils. This study aims to identify and to assess the improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of leguminous cover crops (LCC). In this study, soil samples were obtained from Parit Yusof, Muar, Johore using a random sampling technique. The samples were filled in polybags and treated with four (4) different types of LCC namely Pueraria javanica (T1), Centroma pubescens (T2), Mucuna bracteata (T3) and Colopoganium mucuinodes (T4). Based on the findings, it is showed that Mucuna bracteata was able to improve the soil chemical properties compare to other LCCs. This is due to the highest content of nutrient and better soil pH compared to other types of LCCs.
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spelling uitm-226032020-07-29T08:42:15Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22603/ Improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / Izzatul Akmal Azmi Azmi, Izzatul Akmal S Agriculture (General) Soils. Soil science. Including soil surveys, soil chemistry, soil structure, soil-plant relationships Oil palm plantation usually planted in the deep, well drained and fertile fine soil to clay loams and less planted on peat soil due to it poor physical and chemical characteristics. Hence, it is important to improve the physical as well as chemical properties of peat soils to ensure the oil palm planted is thrive well in such soils. This study aims to identify and to assess the improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of leguminous cover crops (LCC). In this study, soil samples were obtained from Parit Yusof, Muar, Johore using a random sampling technique. The samples were filled in polybags and treated with four (4) different types of LCC namely Pueraria javanica (T1), Centroma pubescens (T2), Mucuna bracteata (T3) and Colopoganium mucuinodes (T4). Based on the findings, it is showed that Mucuna bracteata was able to improve the soil chemical properties compare to other LCCs. This is due to the highest content of nutrient and better soil pH compared to other types of LCCs. Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2018 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22603/1/22603.pdf Azmi, Izzatul Akmal (2018) Improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / Izzatul Akmal Azmi. (2018) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/22603.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle S Agriculture (General)
Soils. Soil science. Including soil surveys, soil chemistry, soil structure, soil-plant relationships
Azmi, Izzatul Akmal
Improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / Izzatul Akmal Azmi
title Improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / Izzatul Akmal Azmi
title_full Improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / Izzatul Akmal Azmi
title_fullStr Improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / Izzatul Akmal Azmi
title_full_unstemmed Improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / Izzatul Akmal Azmi
title_short Improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / Izzatul Akmal Azmi
title_sort improvement of peat soil chemistry using different types of legume cover crop / izzatul akmal azmi
topic S Agriculture (General)
Soils. Soil science. Including soil surveys, soil chemistry, soil structure, soil-plant relationships
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22603/