Keywords
cultural profile
qualitative-quantitative method
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Abstract
Water erosion has high incidence in agricultural production. In this work, a qualitative-quantitative method for assessing the quality of the cultural profile in environments degraded by water erosion is proposed. The method was applied in ten environments within a farm of the southern of Santa Fe, Argentina. Soil is a Typic Argiudoll and average annual rainfall is about 980 mm, the R value of the USLE is 550 MJ mm ha-1 h-1. Signs of water erosion were surveyed and observation wells were made in each environment. The categories for assessing the quality of the cultural profile (VCPC) were: Poor, Fair, Good and Very Good. No Very Good cultural profiles were found and 60% of the evaluated area show cultural profiles between Poor and Fair. The method was effective to discriminate between different situations affected by water erosion process.
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