Drip fertigation:a means for reducing fertilizer nitrogen to sugarcane
| MSI99P3194 | |
| Ng Kee Kwong, K. F. Paul, J. P. Deville, J. | |
| Drip fertigation:a means for reducing fertilizer nitrogen to sugarcane | |
| Periodical article | |
| 1999 | |
| Expl agric. | |
| 0014-4797 | |
| 35(1): 31-38 | |
| En | |
| En | |
| The extent by which fertilizer nitrogen (N) may be reduced by the use of drip-fertigation in sugarcane was determined using 15N-labelled fertilizer in a field experiment in Mauritius. The data showed that, under the soil and climatic conditions that prevailed at the study site, fertilizer N could be reduced by 30 per cent. Indeed, with 80 kg N /ha/a by drip fertigation, total or fertilizer N recovered, growth pattern (as reflected by tiller density and leaf area development) and sugarcane yields were not inferior to those obtained with the standard practice of burying 120 kg N /ha/a along the cane rows. Applying more N than needed by the sugarcane in anticipation of a higher yield with drip irrigation would be wasteful of fertilizer N resources. | |
| SUGARCANE PLANT NUTRITION NITROGEN FERTILIZERS FERTIGATION TRICKLE IRRIGATION | |
| MAURITIUS | |
| Soils and plant nutrition | |
| Fertilization: nitrogen Drip fertigation | |
| 1999-02-18 | |
| En | |
| LIB | |
| CAT | |
| CHEM |