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SUITABILITY OF DALMATIAN SOILS FOR OLIVE TREE CULTIVATION

Matko Bogunović ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Aleksandra Bensa ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Stjepan Husnjak ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Boško Miloš ; Institut za jadranske kulture i melioraciju krša, Split, Hrvatska

Sažetak

In addition to climate, soil is the main ecological factor for olive tree cultivation. Olive trees grow on most Dalmatian soils, but deep, loose and airy soils are preferable for optimal and profitable yields. Whether this is so will be shown by the analysis of the evaluation of Dalmatian soils under olive trees. Investigations have shown that olive trees mainly grow on rather poor soils, that is, shallow and skeletal soils, mostly within rocky areas. This reflects the simple historical space categorization of the region. Namely, in the past deeper soils used to be reserved for crops intended for food production. A small-scale Suitabilitiy soil map was made for olive tree cultivation the needs of this study. Olive trees grow on a wide variety of soil types: lithosol, regosol, colluvium, rendzina, vertisol, eutric cambisol, calcocambisol, terra rossa, luvisol, planosol, fluvisol and hydroameliorated soil. Olive trees are not found on calcomelanosol, ranker, eugley, peaty soil and solonchak. The paper presents assessment of soil suitability per soil type and shows that very deep colluvial slightly skeletal and medium skeletal soils are the best olive tree habitats. These are followed by eutric cambisols and deep and medium deep terra rossa, the water-air relationships in which often cause problems.

Ključne riječi

soil; suitability; olive; Dalmatia

Hrčak ID:

52059

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/52059

Datum izdavanja:

23.4.2010.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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