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Relationship Between Soil Properties and Banana Productivity in the Two Main Cultivation Areas in Venezuela

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To identify the main edaphic variables most correlated to banana productivity in Venezuela and explore the development of an empirical correlation model to predict this productivity based on soil characteristics. Six agricultural fields located in two of the main banana production areas of Venezuela were selected. The experimental sites were in large farms (≥ 50 ha) with four productivity levels in “Gran Nain” bananas, with an area of 4 ha for each of four productive levels: High - High, High - Low, Low - High, and Low - Low. Sixty sampling points were used to characterize the soils under study. Additionally, a Productivity Index (PI) based on three different biometric data on plant productivity was proposed. Through hierarchical statistical analysis, the first 16 soil variables that best explained the PI were selected. Thus, five multiple linear regression models were estimated, using the stepwise regression method. Subsequently, a performance analysis was used to compare the prediction quality range and the error associated with the number of soil variables selected for the proposed models. The selected model included the following soil variables: Mg, penetration resistance, total microbial respiration, bulk density, and omnivorous free-living nematodes. These variables explain the PI with an R2 of 0.55, the mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.8, and the root of the mean squared error (RMSE) of 1.0. The five selected variables are proposed to characterize the soil Productivity Index in banana and could be used in a site-specific soil management program for the banana areas of Venezuela.

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The authors recognize the financial support for international mobility of the Ibero-American scholarship program (2018–2019) of Banco Santander. Also, by project “Technological innovations for the management and improvement of the quality and health of banana soils in Latin America and the Caribbean” financed by FONTAGRO and coordinated by Bioversity International (before INIBAP) and project SHui (European Commission Grant Agreement number: 773903).

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  1. Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería Agraria, Alimentaria, Forestal y del Desarrollo Rural Sostenible, Universidad de Córdoba, Campus Rabanales, Carretera Nacional IV, km 396, 14014, Córdoba, Spain

    Barlin Orlando Olivares

  2. Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Católica del Maule, km 6 Camino Los Niches, Curicó, Chile

    Miguel Araya-Alman

  3. Centro de Investigación y Trasferencia en Riego y Agrometeorología (CITRA), Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad de Talca, Avenida Lircay s/n, Talca, 3460000, Talca, Chile

    Cesar Acevedo-Opazo & Paulo Cañete-Salinas

  4. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrícolas (INIA-CENIAP), Av. Universidad vía El Limón, Maracay, 02105, Venezuela

    Juan Carlos Rey

  5. Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Av. Universidad, Maracay, 02105, Venezuela

    Juan Carlos Rey & Deyanira Lobo

  6. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), c/Godoy Cruz, 2290, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Franca Giannini Kurina & Mónica Balzarini

  7. Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible CSIC, Alameda del Obispo s/n, 14004, Córdoba, Spain

    Juan A. Navas-Cortés, Blanca B. Landa & José Alfonso Gómez

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Table 7 Means values ± standard deviations for the variables selected in model 3: Mg, magnesium content; PR, penetration resistance; TMR, total microbial respiration; BD, soil bulk density; NVLomc, omnivorous free-living nematodes in the six banana sites included in the study. All soil properties correspond to horizon 1
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Olivares, B.O., Araya-Alman, M., Acevedo-Opazo, C. et al. Relationship Between Soil Properties and Banana Productivity in the Two Main Cultivation Areas in Venezuela. J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 20, 2512–2524 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-020-00317-8

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