Uso de fertilizantes orgánicos en la producción de cucurbitáceas. Revisión de literatura

Abstract

The man has adopted innumerable procedures to improve the quality of his agricultural products,as well as to mitigate the adversities that can occur in crops, looking for alternatives to improve soils, produce under controlled conditions, guarantee profitability in harvests and contribute to the health of consumers. Organic ecological agroecological agriculture or other expressions is the result of intensive, industrial agriculture, or the green revolution due to the negative impacts on the soil, the atmosphere, and crops such as cucurbits, among which the following stand out: melon, watermelon, cucumber, pumpkin, among others. The main of this work was develop a literature review on the use of organic fertilizers in cucurbits. The review used 53 bibliographic references in English, Spanish and Portuguese, included in Web of Science, SCOPUS, Scielo, Redalyc and Latindex from 2010 to 2023, using the keywords ¨family Cucurbitaceae¨, ¨importance of Cucurbitaceae¨, ¨organic fertilizers¨, and ¨use of organic fertilizers in Cucurbitaceae¨. It can be concluded that it is possible to produce cucurbits with different organic fertilizers and that their production and quality depend on their nutritional content, as well as on factors related to the crop. In the documents analyzed, cattle manure stands out as the most used fertilizer in the production of cucurbits.