Desempenho do cultivo de couve de folha com espécies aromáticas e condimentares

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Hendges, Ana Régia Alves de Araújo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata; Viabilidade agroeconômica; Eficiência biológica; Habilidade competitiva; Comunidade de artrópodes
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/19260

Intercropping is one of the most appropriate strategies vegetable production today. With ecological principles, intercropping establishes complex interactions between species requiring further study than just measurements of the production yield. We need to assess the viability of intercropped systems from other aspects, such as the complementary or competitive of cultures,biological efficiency of resource use, physiology of production or even the possibility of other benefits to the farming system. For crops that have socioeconomic expression as the kale to analyze the viability is even more evident. Therefore this study aimed to evaluate the performance of the kale intercropped with aromatic herbs (bunching onion, coriander, basil and parsley). The study was divided into three tests. The tests were conducted under field conditions at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), in Fortaleza, Brazil, during the period from August to November 2015. The experimental design was randomized blocks and with five replications. In the first test assessed the agroeconomic viability and biological efficiency. The second and third respectively studied the effects of intercropping on the photosynthetic behavior of kale and on the community of arthropods and the growth rate of the population of Myzus persicae. The M. persicae is main pest species associated with this culture. The kale intercropped with parsley had the best productive performance. The kale intercropped with coriander and with parsley reached the greatest economic advantages. The kale was the weakest competitor of all cultures consorts evaluated. Most biological efficiency and less competitive effect occurred when the kale plants were intercropped with parsley. The kale had the less photosynthetic performance in intercropping with coriander due to shading caused by the consort crop. The intercropping with basil had the highest diversity of arthropod species. The populations of M.persicae had slower growth in intercropping with coriander and parsley. The fresh weight of cabbage leaf was reduced with increasing density aphids. We concluded that the kale intercropped with parsley was more advantage agroeconomic and contributed to maintaining a population of aphids lower compared to the other evaluated intercropping.