Author(s): MENDES, I. de C.; MERCANTE, F. M.; REIS JUNIOR, F. B. dos; FERREIRA, E. P. de B.

Summary: Although since 1984 there are Rhizobium strains available for common bean inoculation in Brazil, a survey in 2014 showed that only 15% of the Brazilian farmers adopt inoculation as a routine practice. Part of this disbelief in relation to common beans inoculation can be attributed to the fact that supposedly, bean inoculation would not be able to support increased yield levels in high-tech farms, being appropriate only for small farms. A series of demonstration units carried out since 2012, under farm conditions in the Cerrado region, have showed that a 10.8% mean increase in yield were obtained only with inoculation in relation to the treatment without inoculation and without nitrogen fertilization (whose average yield was 3163 kg ha-1). It was also found that inoculation with supplementation of 60 kg ha-1 of N promoted yield levels (4010 kg ha-1) higher than those with 120 kg ha-1 N as urea (3411 kg ha-1).

Publication year: 2016

Types of publication: Abstract in annals or event proceedings

Unit: Embrapa Rice & Beans

Keywords: Cerrado, Feijão, Inoculação, Phaseolus vulgaris, Rhizobium