Filter cake as a nitrogen fertilizer for plant cane in Mauritius

Code (CO)	MSI99P0193
Author (AU)	Ng Kee Kwong, K. F. Deville, J.
Title - English (ET)	Filter cake as a nitrogen fertilizer for plant cane in Mauritius
Document Type(DT)	Periodical article
Date of publication (DP)	1988
Series (SE)	Trop. Agric. (Trinidad)
Source (SO)	65: 364-366
Language of text (LT)	En
Language of summaries (LS)	En
Abstract (AB)	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.
Descriptors - English (DE)	SUGARCANE NITROGEN FILTER CAKE PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZERS PLANT NUTRITION
Descriptors - Geographic (DG)	MAURITIUS
Sort Key 1(K1)	Sugarcane: Soils and plant nutrition
Sort Key 2 (K2)	Fertilization: Nitrogen
Date record entered (DA)	1992-02-13
Language of analysis (LA)	En
Affiliation (AF)	Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute
Location (LO)	LIB
Processing status (PS)	CAT
MSIRI Staff (MS)	CHEM