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Response of hybrid maize (Zea mays L.) to soil and foliar application of nutrients

Volume : 95
Issue: Jan-jun
Pages: 200 - 202
Published: May 05, 2023
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Abstract


Maize has higher production potential in Tamil Nadu, especially under irrigated conditions. Development of hybrid maize has broken the yield barrier to a greater extent. It is well known that maize, that too hybrid maize is heavy feeder on nutrients. Bedsides soil application of nutrients, it is important to feed the hybrid maize through foliar application of nutrients and micronutrients. Zinc and sulphur were found to be the yield limiting nutrients in many of the long-term fertilizer experiments (Nambiar, 1994). Studies on the nutrient requirement of hybrid maize with various integrating factors such as inorganics, organics and foliar feeding of DAP, MOP and micronutrients are scanty. Hence, the present study was proposed to study the effect of above factors on hybrid maize at North Western agro climatic zone of Tamil Nadu.

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200 - 202
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Hybrid maize foliar nutrients and soil nutrients
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