Trying to obtain information on the effects of systems of soil tillage and its relationship with the degradation of the soil and the capacity of incorporation of residues, percentages of distribution of soil aggregates, the geometric mean diameter, thinness' module and incorporation of residues were evaluated in 2001/2002. The soil of the areas was classified as Haplustox, in Uberaba's district situated in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The experimental randomized blocks design was used, in a split plot scheme, with four replications. The treatments were the soil tillage with chisel plow, rotary hoe, moldboard plow, disk harrow and disk plow, and four repetitions. The analyses of the results showed the rotary hoe and the disk harrow as the most aggressive equipments to the structure of the soil. The chisel plow and the rotary hoe presented smaller capacity of incorporation of the vegetable residues. The chisel plow kept greater vegetable covering and larger degree of soil aggregation.
residues incorporation; geometric mean diameter; distribution of the soil aggregates
