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The paper presents results of research on the soil tillage in conservative agriculture systems conducted on different soil types, under different eco-pedological conditions in Romania, in order to substantiate their scientific suitability and the assessment of implementation possibilities in relation to the entire agricultural area. Of the total arable land of Romania, the land suitable to the conservative farming systems are 4984 thousand ha (49.6%), of which, 1567 thousand hectares (15.61%) are plane and slightl...

The soil is the predominant environmental factor for the accumulation of pollutants, including heavy metals, from where, in time, they enter into the global plant-water-animal-human circuit. Some heavy metals with higher toxicity and mobility such as Cd, Pb and even Zn and Cu can be accumulated in large amounts in the edible part of the plant or animal organs, generating consumer illness, some of the worst. This paper presents two examples of cities in Romania, Cop?a Mica and Baia Mare, where, for a long time, met...

Research conducted on sterile dumps resulting from surface mining of lignite, have shown that in the waste dump restoration process, the main issues are raised by the non-uniformity of texture, extreme textures, lack of structure, low content of organic matter, the deficiency in macro (NPK) and micro (Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn) nutrients and low biological activity. Most experiments with fertilizers revealed that the maximum yield was achieved in variants fertilized with high doses of organic fertilizers, in addition with mi...

Over a period of two years (2015, 2016), in a field experience organized on a Chernozems in south-eastern part of Romania, it was investigated the effect of soil fertilization with compost made from three organic waste (farmyard manure, sewage sludge, and marine algae), in different variants resulting from the mixtures of the three components in different proportions, 50% each and 25% the other two, applied to soil in doses of 25, 50, 75 and 100 t/ha. It is important to note that these compost doses were been admi...

The effect of a polycomposite compost consisting of three organic waste (farmyard manure, sewage sludge, and marine algae) on the nutrition and seed production of the sunflower cultivated in a field experience on a Chernozems in the southeastern part of Romania, was investigated for 2 years. Three types of compost were made from different mixtures of the three components added in proportions by 25% or 50% so that each compost was prevalent in one of them. Agro-chemical analyses of soil samples (pH and N-NO3, N-NH4...

Within an expeditionary study, conducted in the south-eastern part of the Romanian Plain and central and southern Dobrogea, soil samples (0-20 cm) under the maize during the growing phase of 4-7 pairs of leaves, have been collected. The investigation methodology included three methods: determining the soil content of mobile Zn, soluble in CH3COONH4-EDTA solution at pH 7, calculating the values of the reaction-mobile phosphates index (RMPI) and of the zinc deficiency index (ZnDI), in order to establish the probabil...