SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF PHOSPHORUS, POTASSIUM AND OF THE YIELD OF A COFFEE FIELD

摘要

abstract_textpThe Precision Agriculture appears as an important tool to the management of coffee farms where the knowledge of some soil features associated with the coffee production could help specific application of fertilizing with positive environmental and economic results. So the aim of this study was to use precision agriculture and geoestatistics to evaluate the variables phosphorus, potassium and the coffee plant yield, in three different crops, by evaluating the semivariogram and kriging maps and show that these tools are important to the coffee management. This study was conducted on the Brejao farm in Tres Pontas, Minas Gerais, in 2007/2008, 2008/2009 e 2009/2010 crop. As data base were used chemical soil data obtained by sampling in a georreferenced location using a quadricycle with a sampler and a GPS, and the yield data was obtained from manual harvest on the georreferenced location. It was possible to characterize the spatial variability magnitude of the studied attributes, and they presented huge variation on time and space. Adjusts of the best semivariograms enable to produce more accurate maps that contribute to the geostatistics uses on coffee crop./p/abstract_text