Timing potassium applications to sugar cane in Mauritius
| MSI99P0338 | |
| Ng Kee Kwong, K. F. Deville, J. | |
| Timing potassium applications to sugar cane in Mauritius | |
| Periodical article | |
| 1989 | |
| Fert. Res. | |
| 20: 153-158 | |
| En | |
| En | |
| The influence of K fertilizer timing on yield and K nutrition of sugarcane (Saccharum hybrid sp.) was investigated by field experiments in Mauritius. The data obtained showed that delaying all or half of the recommended 150 KgK/ha to coincide with the peak growth period of sugarcane had no significant bearing on the yield and K nutritional status of the sugarcane. In areas with an annual rainfall less than 2000 mm per year, the K requirement of as many as 6 sugarcane crops could be met by a single application of K fertilizer banded in the rows at planting. However in regions where rainfall exceeds 2000 mm per year, yearly application of the required K is preferable to a large single application of K fertilizer at planting. | |
| SUGARCANE YIELDS FERTILIZERS POTASSIUM PLANT NUTRITION | |
| MAURITIUS | |
| Sugarcane: Soils and plant nutrition | |
| Fertilization: Potassium | |
| 1992-02-20 | |
| En | |
| Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute | |
| CHEM | |
| CAT | |
| CHEM |