Unlocking the Secrets of Soil Health: Exploring the Influence of Natural and Synthetic Nutrients on Soil Organic Carbon and Active & Passive Carbon Pool in Vertisols
Vishal Gupta *
College of Agriculture, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
K.S. Bangar
College of Agriculture, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
B.B. Parmar
College of Agriculture, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Jyoti Bangre
College of Agriculture, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Kishan Kumar
Rajasthan college of agriculture Udaipur (MPUAT), India.
Brajesh Yadav
College of Agriculture, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The experiment carried out in this field study was between 2022 and 2023 at the (AICRP) research farm in the outward-bound farm of the College of Agriculture, Indore. Indore is a small city in the western part of Madhya Pradesh, Central India, situated on the Malwa Plateau. An experiment was conducted with three replication by using different combination of N, P levels and crop residues in RBD design. Experiment field was medium to black soil with pH of 7.63 and medium in organic carbon 0.58%. The soil was low in available nitrogen (208.0 kg/ha) medium in available phosphorus (21.0 kg/ha) and high in potassium (585 kg/ha) and divided into gross plot size of 10 x 7.2 m2 and a net plot size of 9 x 6.4 m2, respectively. During crop harvest four different depths were used to gather the soil samples: 0–10, 10–20, 20–30, and 30–40 cm. All the collected samples are examined separated for soil organic carbon, active (highly labile, labile SOC), and passive (non-labile, less labile SOC) carbon pools. The finding showed that maximum soil organic carbon (%) was observed with the application of treatment T6 treatment (FYM 6 t ha-1 + N20 P13. Similar trend was found with active (very labile, labile) and passive carbon (less labile, non-labile) pools of soil.
Keywords: Soil organic carbon (SOC), very labile, labile, less labile, non-labile, active and passive carbon pool