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Efficacy of Indian and German Basic Slags in Comparison with Superphosphate on the Yield of Rice

Volume : 56
Issue: Aug-aug
Pages: 499 - 505
Published: October 24, 2023
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Abstract


Basic slag is a by-product in the manufacture of steel from pig iron and it owes its fertiliser properties to the phosphorus content of the by-product. The phosphorus content of the basic slag ranges from 2 to 16% of total phosphoric acid. A large number of experiments have been done with basic slag in Western countries. However, experiments with basic slag are very few in India (Raychaudri, 1960). So a study was made on rice to assess the relative merits of superphosphate, high-soluble basic slag and low-soluble basic slag with the objectives, (1) to study the relative merits of the high- soluble slag, low-soluble basic slag and superphosphate on equal dose of phosphoric acid and (2) to study the residual values of superphosphate, high-soluble slag and low-soluble slag applied to first crop of rice on the succeeding second crop of rice.

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499 - 505
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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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