Winter wheat pests and their natural enemies under organic farming system in Slovakia: Effect of ploughing and previous crop |
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Authors: | J Gallo S Pekár |
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Institution: | (1) Faculty of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia;(2) Research Institute of Crop Production, Drnovská 507, 161 06 Prague 6-Ruzyne, Czech Republic |
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Abstract: | Organic farming system of winter wheat was investigated in Solvakia over three years, 1995–1997. The system was carried out
on a small scale (four plots of 50 m2). Neither pesticides nor inorganic fertilisers were applied. Effect of two treatments, ploughing and previous crop, on the
community of pests and natural enemies was surveyed. There were two types of ploughing (shallow and deep) made in autumn before
sowing. As previous crops, silage-maize and alfalfa were used each season. The effect of all factors was analysed by multivariate
method, redundancy analysis (RDA) and Monte Carlo permutation to assess statistical significance. During three years, 37 taxons
of pests and 27 taxons of natural enemies were recorded. The results of RDA showed that the community of insects (pests and
natural enemies) was mainly influenced by temporal variation. The highest abundance of all insects was observed in 1996. The
effect of the two treatments on the community of pests and natural enemies was less obvious. Pests were found to be significantly
more influenced by ploughingthan by previous crop. Most of pests occurred more abundantly on plots with shallow ploughing
and on plots after maize. Abundance of natural enemies were, however, significantly affected by previous crop. Majority of
them were more abundant on plots after maize than after alfalfa. Ploughing had only marginally significant effect on natural
enemies that were more abundant on shallow ploughed plots. Both ploughing and previous crop had only negligible effect on
species diversity of natural enemies. |
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