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Yield and quality of sugarcane as influenced by organic manures and chemical fertilizers on long term basis

Volume : 95
Issue: Jul-dec
Pages: 462 - 466
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Published: May 22, 2023
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Abstract


Sugarcane is a major crop in the north eastern region of Tamil Nadu, occupying 4.2% of the total cultivable area. Balanced application of fertilizer nutrients and organic manures can sustain higher yield and quality of sugarcane while improving soil fertility. However, intensive sugarcane cultivation can deplete native plant nutrients in the soil, leading to a decline in soil fertility. A permanent manurial experiment was started at the Sugarcane Research Station in Cuddalore in 1963 to evaluate the long-term use of manures and fertilizers on sugarcane yield and quality. In this study, the 20th plant crop of sugarcane CoSi 95071 was tested in a split plot design with different combinations of phosphorus, potassium, and compost, as well as various levels of nitrogen in the form of prilled urea and neem cake blended urea.

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462 - 466
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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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Soil fertility intensive cultivation and native plant nutrients
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