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Spatio-temporal heterogeneity of agroecological conditions is a fundamental factor of the crop production process in agricultural landscapes. A comprehensive study was launched to search for the most effective precision fertilization systems for the landscape–ecological conditions of the Chudskaya Lowland’s undulating plain, which has a soil cover of a lithogenic mosaic of sod-podzolic soils. Under production conditions in 2007, a precision soil survey of the agricultural landscape was carried out, and a landscape field experiment was laid in a vegetable crop rotation on sod-podzolic soils from sandy to medium loamy granulometric composition. The precision fertilization system based on preliminary differentiated soil cultivation provided an increase in the productivity of the vegetable crop rotation by 132% relative to the control and by 37% relative to the traditional mineral fertilization system, with a profitability of 63%. The system improved the quality of the main products of the vegetable crop rotation, increasing the content of crude protein by 19%, potassium by 32% and vitamins by 62% and decreasing the spatial variability of the most sensitive properties 1.5–2.1 times. Nitrates accumulated in potato tubers 14% less than in the variant of the uniform fertilization system, and the accumulation of starch and vitamin C increased by 6 and 24%, respectively. Against the background of unfavorable physicochemical and agrophysical states of most agricultural soils, the precision mineral fertilization system did not provide a reliable superiority of crop productivity over the traditional uniform fertilization system.
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Ivanov, A., Konashenkov, A., Ivanova, Z. (2022). Spatial Heterogeneity of Lithogenic Mosaic of Sod-Podzolic Soils of Chudskaya Lowland and Efficiency of Precision Fertilization System. In: Ronzhin, A., Berns, K., Kostyaev, A. (eds) Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 245. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3349-2_5
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