Year: 2018 | Month: June | Volume 5 | Issue 1
Assessing the Fertilizer Efficiency in Paddy Production
R.P. Singh and Jai Prakash
DOI:10.30954/2394-8159.01.2018.9
Abstract:
The injudicious use of chemical fertilizers in field crops has posed a great amount of threat to the environment, besides lowering the profit from agriculture. There is a need to assess the fertilizer efficiency in specific crops to optimize their use for greater profitability and achieving sustainability. Therefore, the present study was conducted to analyze the trend and pattern of chemical fertilizer consumption in production of paddy crop on the farmer’s field during 1993-94 to 2016-17. It was found that there is an increasing trend in consumption of fertilizer quantity and consumption of fertilizer (Nitrogenous and phosphorous) remain the same over 20 years in the study area. Although, yield of paddy per unit of area is increasing but the farmers are operating in third phase of production.
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