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Relative efficacy of some new urea-based nitrogen fertilizers for growing wetland rice on a permeable alluvial soil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Bijay-Singh  and
J. C. Katyal
Bijay-Singh
Affiliation:
All India Coordinated Scheme of Micronutrients in Soils and Plants, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141 004, India
J. C. Katyal
Affiliation:
All India Coordinated Scheme of Micronutrients in Soils and Plants, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141 004, India
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Summary

Efficiency of N contained in some modified urea fertilizers was studied for wetland rice grown in an alkaline, low organic matter Fatehpur loamy sand (Typic Ustipsamment) soil having an average percolation rate of 109 mm/day. In the four field experiments, sulphurcoated urea (SCU) produced significantly more rice grain than urea supergranules (USG) or divided applications of urea or ammonium sulphate. Application of SCU at 58 kg N/ha yielded as much rice grain as was produced by divided application of urea at 116 kg N/ha. The N uptake data suggested that SCU-N was more efficiently translated into grain yield than urea N. Granular (7-day release rate 19%) and forestry (7-day release rate 29%) grades of SCU were equally effective. However, application of half the N basally through SCU and the remaining half top dressed as urea failed to outyield all urea divided in three applications. The indigenous coated materials, rock-phosphate-coated urea and urea gypsum, also did not perform better than divided urea applications as these did not possess a 7-day release rate less than 95%. Urea supergranules placed in the reduced zone of the soil could not come to the level of divided application of urea or ammonium sulphate. The N uptake data indicated that USG-N was correspondingly inefficiently utilized by rice. When the deep placement aspect of USG was combined with slow-release properties of SCU in the form of sulphur-coated urea supergranules (SCUSG), the performance of this product was inferior even to the divided application of urea. Undissolved or partially dissolved granules of SCUSG could be recovered even after the harvest of the crop.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 109 , Issue 1 , August 1987 , pp. 27 - 31
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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