Potassium in soils cropped with sugarcane in Mauritius

Code (CO)	MSI06P4218
Author (AU)	Ng Kee Kwong, K. F. Ramasawmy-Chellen, G.
Title - English (ET)	Potassium in soils cropped with sugarcane in Mauritius
Document Type(DT)	periodical article
Date of publication (DP)	2006
Series (SE)	Sug. Tech
Source (SO)	8(4): 239-245
Language of text (LT)	En
Language of summaries (LS)	En
Abstract (AB)	In view of the importance of potassium (K) in sugarcane production, a study was initiated to broaden current understanding of the K in the soils of Mauritius. Water soluble, exchangeable and non-exchangeable K as well as the 0.1 M H2SO4 extractible K (extraction in 0.1 M H2SO4 is used to give a measure of long term K availability in soils of Mauritius) were determinedbefore and after fertilization with 1.25 g K per kg soil (equivalent to 350 kg KCL per ha) in 73 soils under sugarcane in Mauritius. The rate of K release with time was also studied in the soils receiving the added KCl. The results
Descriptors - English (DE)	sugarcane potassium water soluble potassium non-exchangeable K K release rate fertilizers plant nutrition
Descriptors - Geographic (DG)	MAURITIUS
Sort Key 1(K1)	Sugarcane: Soils and plant nutrition
Sort Key 2 (K2)	Fertilization: Potassium
Date record entered (DA)	2006-12-14
Language of analysis (LA)	En
Location (LO)	LIB
Processing status (PS)	CAT
MSIRI Staff (MS)	CHEm