Soil conservation: an alliance with fertilizers
By Valter Casarin, general and scientific coordinator of Nutrientes Para a Vida
The Accura 4.0 BX launch is the perfect combination of the robustness of the Boxer H sprayer with the distribution efficiency of the Accura line. With a 4 cubic meter reservoir and application range of up to 36 meters, the distributor comes with a 190hp engine and 4x4 hydrostatic transmission
By Lauro Costa Rezende (Case IH Agriculture, Marketing Tractor); André Gutierrez Peres (Case IH Agriculture, Marketing Seeder); Samir Paulo Jasper, Gabriel Ganancini Zimmermann, Fernanda Gonçalves Moreno (Agricultural Tractor Adaptation Laboratory, UPR)
In HortiFruti crops, the demand for fertilizers and water is very high, making it necessary to observe some basic principles for the efficient management and use of these inputs, especially in the stages prior to planting.
Regular and continuous supply of nutrients to plants, lower frequency of applications to soils, reduction of nutrient losses due to leaching, immobilization and volatilization, as well as elimination of damage caused to roots by high concentration of salts are among the advantages of controlled release of fertilizers in sugarcane