A New Systematic Technique for Optimum Fertilizer Treatment in Fertilizer Response Experiments
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Author:M. Paramasivan, P. Malarvizhi, S. Thiyageshwari and K. Velayudham
p-ISSN:0024-9602, e-ISSN:2582-5321, Vol:99, Issue:jul-sep
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.100122
Abstract
Experiments were carried out to optimize the nutrients for hybrid maize through nutrient
sorption study and green house experiment during 2007- 2008 at Tamil Nadu Agricultural
University, Coimbatore. A systematic procedure for optimum nutrient treatment (ONT) as
the basis for formulating the treatment structure for field experiments for fertilizer response
studies was tested in the present investigation in two soil series belonging to
Mayamankuruchi (Typic Haplustepts and Madukkur (Udic Haplustalfs). Nutrient sorption
studies were conducted in these soils for P, K, S, Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn and B. The critical level of
nutrients for these soils were fixed prescribed by Portch and Hunter. The sorption curves
were used to formulate Optimum Nutrient Treatment (ONT). The validity of these ONTs was
verified in a green house experiment using the same soil. The two experimental soils were
found to deficient in N, P, K and Zn, and their optimum amounts varied between the soils. The
optimum nutrients for hybrid maize var. COHM5 were formulated for these two soil series
from this study.
Key words : Green house study, Mayamankuruchi, Madukkur, Soil series, Nutrient sorption,
Optimum nutrient treatment,