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Integrated crop–forage–forestry for sustainable agricultural systems: productive performance

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The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of different crop arrangements and weed management in integrated crop–forage–forestry systems on weed incidence, yield of maize and forage grass, quality of total harvested and tree development. The experiment was analyzed as split-plot and as randomized complete block design. Whole plots were crop arrangements containing maize, Marandu palisadegrass, Basilisk signalgrass, Piatã palisadegrass, eucalyptus and acacia, and subplots were the weed management (1.5 kg ha−1 of atrazine and 1.5 kg ha−1 of atrazine + 0.006 kg ha−1 of nicosulfuron). Planting was done under no-tillage system and herbicides were applied 22 days after maize emergence. The weeds incidence was not affected by treatments. Applying the mixture of atrazine and nicosulfuron reduced the grasses yield. However, the total dry mass harvested was not affected. The average yield of whole-plant corn in the intercropping systems was 12.9 t ha−1 of dry mass. The simultaneous establishment of the integrated crop–forage–forestry systems does not reduce the productivity and quality of whole-plant corn nor the production of the tree component at the first cultivation year. Despite the reduced grasses yield, the application of nicosulfuron and atrazine does not improve the production and quality of whole-plant corn in relation to the application of atrazine alone.

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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG).

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  1. Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, MG, Brazil

    Márcia Vitória Santos & Leandro Diego da Silva

  2. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

    Dilermando Miranda da Fonseca, Lino Roberto Ferreira & Silvio Nolasco de Oliveira Neto

  3. Instituto Federal Goiano, Rio Verde, GO, Brazil

    Wender Ferreira de Souza

  4. Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil

    Tadeu Silva de Oliveira

  5. Embrapa Gado de Leite, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil

    Domingos Sávio Campos Paciullo

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Santos, M.V., da Fonseca, D.M., da Silva, L.D. et al. Integrated crop–forage–forestry for sustainable agricultural systems: productive performance. Agroforest Syst 94, 417–427 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-019-00404-5

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