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EFFECT OF COMBINED APPLICATION OF UREA WITH INORGANIC SALTS ON N TRANSFORMATION, YIELD AND UPTAKE OF RICE.

Volume : 81
Issue: Jan-jan
Pages: 12 - 15
Published: July 08, 2023
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Abstract


A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of graded levels of N as urea alone and in combination with KCL, CaSO4 and ZnSO4 on rice yield, uptake of N. N use efficiency and N transformations in Madurai. The inorganic salts and graded levels of N addition positively influenced the inorganic fractions of N and available N in soil at all stages of crop growth. Increased grain production was noted for application of inorganic salts with urea. The increases was about 8% for KCL, 4% for CaSO4 and 3 per cent ZnSO4 over urea alone. The N uptake by rice increased with graded levels of N application. Addition of inorganic salts particularly KCL increased the N uptake followed by urea + CaSOs and urea +ZnSO4. The N uptake by the crop was found to be correlated with soil inorganic N fractions and available N at all stages of crop growth.

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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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