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EFFECT OF FERTILIZER APPLICATION ON SOIL AVAILABLE NUTRIENTS, YIELD AND NUTRIENT UPTAKE OF GARLIC IN ACIDIC LATERITE SOILS OF KODAIKANAL

Volume : 81
Issue: Aug-aug
Pages: 434 - 436
Published: August 13, 2023
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Abstract


Graded levels of N (0,50,100 and 150 kg ha¹), P(0,25,50 and 75 kg ha¹) and K(0,25,50 and 75 kg ha¹) in selected combinations were tried as treatments besides application of zinc sulphate in the soil at 12.5 and 25 kg ha" and foliar spray at 0.5% in fractional factorial design. The two year results revealed that increased doses of application of N,P and K increased the garlic bulb yield and also the uptake of the respective nutrients. Graded levels of the major nutrients also increased the available nutrient content in the soil. A judicious combination of 100-75-50 kg NPK ha and soil application of 100-75-50 kg NPK ha and soil application of ZnSO4 at 25 kg ha' was found to be the optimum to get high yield (upto 20% ), nutrient uptake by the crop besides maintaining the soil fertility in terms of availables major nutrient contents under the conditions of acidic leteritic soils of Kodaikanal

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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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