Agronomic efficiency of fertilizers with aggregate technology in the Brazilian Eastern Amazon

Abstract

The present study aimed to assess the efficiency of monoammonium phosphate (MAP), with controlled-release technology, on cowpea, soybean, and corn in the Brazilian Eastern Amazon edaphoclimatic conditions. It were evaluated MAP conventional, FH Humics MAP that incorporates humic acid, and Potenza MAP that incorporates polymer, and two soils with different clay contents (23.1 and 37.6%), on the growth of cowpea, soybean, and corn, in a greenhouse. Simultaneously, it were evaluated four levels of P (0, 40, 80, and 120 kg ha^-1 of P₂O₅), for the mentioned formulations on cowpea grain yield, in cerrado, and upland forest environments. Fertilization with MAP Humics and MAP Potenza promotes similar soybean, cowpea, and corn growth, and cowpea grain yield compared to conventional MAP, under greenhouse and field conditions, respectively. MAP formulations promote greater soybean, cowpea, and corn growth, and cowpea grain yield in the sandy loam and cerrado than in sandy clay soil and upland forest environment, respectively. Increasing levels of MAP formulations have no effect on cowpea grain yield in the cerrado but promote linear cowpea grain yield increase in the upland forest environment.