The objective of this work was to estimate organic C storage rates in an Typic Hapludox fertilized with soluble fertilizer and pig slurry and cropped under no-tillage. The experiment was carried out in the municipality of Campos Novos, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and the following treatments were applied annually: no fertilization; soluble fertilizer; 25 m3 ha-1 pig slurry + soluble fertilizer; and rates of 25, 50, 100, and 200 m3 ha-1 pig slurry. The following were determined: organic carbon (OC) stocks in the 0-20 cm soil layer; C inputs by crop biomass and pig slurry; annual C fixation rates; and the soil OC humification (k1) and mineralization (k2) coefficients. The real and apparent C fixation rates increased according to pig slurry rates, ranging from 0.6 to 1.7 and from 0.05 to 1.0 Mg ha-1 per year, respectively. The k1 and k2 coefficients were 0.17 and 0.011, respectively, whereas the C input required to maintain the initial stock of OC is of 4.14 Mg ha-1 per year. Pig slurry applied annually on a Typic Hapludox cropped with the maize-black oat succession under no-tillage increases soil OC in rates of up to 200 m3 ha-1.
organic fertilizer; carbon fixation; organic matter; conservation system; swine production
