Site Specific Nutrient Management : Experience form Nepal

ISBN-13: 9786200565945 / Angielski

Santosh Marahatta

Opis

Fertilizer recommendation in Nepal, even for rice cultivation, is presently too generalized and insufficiently related to the site-specific yield potential and soil fertility status. Site Specific Nutrient Management (SSNM) strategies include site and season specific knowledge of crop nutrient requirements and indigenous nutrient supplies that increase rice yield over farmers' practice of fertility management and recommended dose of fertilizer application along with higher nutrient uptake and better N use efficiency. The underlying principles of SSNM need to be carefully identified and evaluated for each macro nutrient for each specific agro-ecology. A major challenge is to simplify the approach for wider scale dissemination and adaptation to farming communities without losing components that are crucial to its success.

O autorze

Marahatta, Santosh
Dr. Santosh Marahatta is an associate professor at Faculty of Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU), Nepal. He received his M. Sc. Agronomy and PhD in Agronomy in 2008 and 2017. His research interests : in the field crop management, cropping system, climate change and conservation agriculture.