MSI99P0193 | |
Ng Kee Kwong, K. F. Deville, J. | |
Filter cake as a nitrogen fertilizer for plant cane in Mauritius | |
Periodical article | |
1988 | |
Trop. Agric. (Trinidad) | |
65: 364-366 | |
En | |
En | |
The possible use of filter cake in the N fertilization of plant cane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) was investigated over a 3-year period in six different climatic zones in Mauritius. The data obtained from the field trials showed that nitrogen uptake by plant cane tended to be improved by filter cake in tow localities only. The present study not only confirmed the value of filter cake as a P source to sugarcane but also showed that more P may likely be taken up from filter cake that from an equivalent amount of triple superphosphate. It is therefore more likely that yield benefit observed in this study with filter cake was caused by an improved P nutrition of plant cane rather than by an enhanced supply of N from the filter cake. | |
SUGARCANE NITROGEN FILTER CAKE PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZERS PLANT NUTRITION | |
MAURITIUS | |
Sugarcane: Soils and plant nutrition | |
Fertilization: Nitrogen | |
1992-02-13 | |
En | |
Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute | |
LIB | |
CAT | |
CHEM |