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FERTILIZERS FOR RICE AND OIL PALM Rice and oil palm play an essential role in Asian agricultural economies. Each crop has special nutrient requirements, as outlined in this review. TABLE [...]

China must feed 22% of the world's population with 7% of the world's arable land. This has made food production a vital issue in China. In order to meet the [...]

The discovery of natural gas reserves has changed the whole scenario of energy in india. However much scope exists for improving its efficient usage. The Indian agricultural sector consumes just [...]

During the past few years, Japan's farmers have begun to face the fact that the country's agricultural industry has entered a long-term decline. Rising labour costs, the unfashionable image of [...]

At the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, Wladimir Puggina, President of IFA and President and CEO of Fertibras, Brazil, reaffirmed the role that fertilizers can play in [...]

Ammonium sulphate (AS) has suffered a long, slow decline from the days when it was the most popular nitrogen fertilizer in the developed world. However, growing sulphur deficiencies in fields [...]

The importance of micronutrients in today's high-intensity agriculture is beyond dispute. Growers cannot afford to neglect them, as a lack of these elements in the soil can limit crop production [...]

POTASSIUM NITRATE TAKES CENTRE-STAGE Potassium nitrate (KN|O.sub.3~) is a binary, high-grade fertilizer. It contains 13.5% of nitrogen and 44-45% of potassium. The product has become increasingly important in recent years [...]

NPKs in Perspective During the past decade, the population of Latin America has been increasing at an average rate of 2.3% per year. Additional pressure is placed on available resources, [...]

In India, the increasing population density is making heavier demands on the soil to produce ever larger quantities of food. The Fertiliser Association of India (FAI) estimates that NPK removal [...]

Effective plant analysis holds the key to getting the best results from the latest precision agriculture technology. Dr. Kim Polizotto, Chief Agronomist of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS) explains [...]

The latest results published by the Focus on Farming Practice integrated farming project in the UK suggest that switching to cheaper inputs or cutting application rates are a false economy. [...]

Increasing efforts are being made to minimise pesticide use as a basic approach to controlling the incidence of pests and disease in tea and other plants. In China, where the [...]

Drip irrigation systems, employing fertigation techniques to add fertilizer nutrients, hold the key to bringing less fertile regions into cultivation. Obtaining the best results from fertigation, however, requires careful management [...]

Modern livestock rearing for dairy, eggs and meat production is under intense scrutiny, and, for cattle and other ruminant animals at least, grassland systems are widely seen as the more [...]

Application rates of nitrogen fertilizer in the UK fell by 5kg/ha for field crops and 14kg/ha for grassland in 1998. The former was due to lower applications to cereals and [...]

These also affect yields N, P & K -- Elements of Discontent? The important effect of micronutrients on agricultural yields is frequently overlooked. Farmers are increasingly aware that iron, zinc, [...]

TESTS SHOW WHAT IS BEST FOR COCONUTS The Philippines is the world's largest commercial producer of coconuts and their derivative products (copra and coconut oil), and the country has a [...]

The Pacific Coast of California and Mexico share a common climate and topography. The earliest settlers from Europe did not view this region as being particularly favourable for agriculture, as [...]

Indian agronomist wins IFA award. Dr. Vethaiya T. Balasubramanian (BAN) was presented with the International Fertilizer Association's (IFA) International Award at the organisation's annual conference in Philadelphia in May. Dr [...]

Forest fertilisation has increased substantially in the United States since the 1960s. In the south eastern United States in 2001, the acreage devoted to pine forestry totalled 47.1 million acres, [...]

The latest British Survey of Fertiliser Practice shows continuing declines in the application of nitrogen fertilizers on both field crops and grasslands, and particularly marked declines in P and K [...]

To coincide with the recent World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, the European Fertilizer Manufacturers Association (EFMA) published a booklet, Harvesting Energy with Fertilizers. This booklet recognises that the [...]

Oilseeds are now the second largest agricultural commodity after cereals in India, accounting for 14% of the gross cropped area and 10% of the value of all agricultural products. Indeed, [...]

The increases in rice yields that new varieties and increased fertilizer use brought from the 1960s onwards have been essential to feed the growing world population. But that population, now [...]

The current worldwide interest in precision farming prompted the International Fertiliser Society to devote a two-day conference to this topic in December 1998. The ten papers (Proceedings No.417-426) cover the [...]

The major use of controlled release fertilizers is in horticulture, where their use allows sufficient nutrients to be put into pots or containers to last plants for some considerable time, [...]

Wednesday, 19 April will for long be remembered as a day of infamy. The destruction by a planted bomb of the Alfred Murrah Building, Oklahoma City, led to the loss [...]

A fresh look at input placement Although the placement aspect of crop husbandry has advanced little in 150 years, application technology must keep pace with agronomic research. As Dr. J. [...]

A monthly summary of developments in applications Use of fertilizers in oil palm plantations In many tropical countries, the cultivation of oil palms as an export-oriented crop is becoming increasingly [...]