The traditional agricultural system disregards spatial variability of the attributes of soil used in crop production, while the site-specific management aims to identify and to propose a management of this variability. An experiment of 70ha was conducted with the purpose of determining the correlation between soil attributes, of crop and flooded rice yield through site-specific management techniques. It was collected one sample per hectare, and the soil analysis results were used to elaborate the map of its chemical attributes. The sampling to determne the grain yield was made in a grid with one point per hectare and four plant sub-samples per point georreferenced were hand plucked. The spatial variability and the correlations between soil attribute maps and flooded rice yield were done using the Campeiro Software 6.0. The highest positive correlations between them were verified for calcium and magnesium, while aluminium saturation presented the highest negative correlation.
spatial variability; maps; geostatistic
