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A review of certain aspects of fertilizer placement for citrus in the U. S. A

Volume : 48
Issue: May-may
Pages: 165 - 170
Published: November 04, 2023
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Abstract


Proper placement of fertilizer is beginning to rank with proper amounts in the minds of today's farmers. Improper placement has limiting fertilizer responses to a great extent. It is important to have it where it will intercept the roots of the young plant. An estimate of the fertilizer applications in the western section of the United States (Camp, 1947) indicates that approximately 70 percent of the acreage receives nitrogen by hand. Only one percent of the acreage receives nitrogen application in the form of foliage sprays while 20 percent of the acreage receives a part of the nitrogen in the form of urea sprays. In the eastern section too, the percentage of application by hand is 70 per cent. Aside from a few experiments in California and Florida, there is scarcely any detailed work on this important aspect.

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165 - 170
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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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