Foliar Nutrition: A Key to Utilize Production Potential of Horticultural Crops
2014
Singh, S. K. | Singh, Versha
Agricultural scientists are day night busy; to evolve high yielding crop varieties and introduce most easy and economical crop production technology, for fulfillment of the food requirements of the population, growing up very fast. They have conducted various studies world over and reveals that soil analysis, land preparation, sowing time and methodologies, irrigation, interculturing, thinning, fertilizer application and crop protection techniques are basic principles and necessities. Among these, fertilizers play a vital role, because regular cultivation results nutritional deficient soils and the cultivation in nutritionally poor soils not only result slow growth process but weak plants easily hit by insect pests and diseases also. Therefore, fertilizer application become compulsory similar to food supplements and multivitamin and mineral supplements as are necessary for human being.
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