The need is increasing more and more from less and less of land and water both in quality and quantity. The aspects of efficient use of resources with conservation, growth with equity and sustainability are the difficult tasks to accomplish the given background of agricultural diversity and stubborn traditions attached to agriculture in India. The strategy in terms of finding alternate cropping systems that can meet the above necessities for sustainable agricultural development of the country is the need of the hour. The sustainability of our agricultural system can be traced to the...
The need is increasing more and more from less and less of land and water both in quality and quantity. The aspects of efficient use of resources with...
Rice the major food crop of half of the worlds population, requires large amount of mineral nutrients including C and N for their growth, development and production. Rice crops remove around 16-17 kg N for the production of each ton of paddy. Most of the rice soils of the world are deficient in N, so, fertilizer N applications are required to meet its demand. Generally, urea is applied as the N source for rice production. But the efficiency of added urea-N is very low, due to denitrification, NH3 volatilization and leaching. In addition to these, regular depletion of this inorganic fertilizer...
Rice the major food crop of half of the worlds population, requires large amount of mineral nutrients including C and N for their growth, development ...
