Alireza Behdadian; Afshin Soltani; Ebrahim Zeinali; Hossein Ajam Norouzi; Hassan Masoumi
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To evaluate the effects of nitrogen management at yellow budding stage on seed yield with using nitrogen nutrition index (ratio of nitrogen concentration in the plant to optimum concentration), of rapeseed farms in Gorgan, an experiment was conducted as a nested model arranged in a complete randomized ...
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To evaluate the effects of nitrogen management at yellow budding stage on seed yield with using nitrogen nutrition index (ratio of nitrogen concentration in the plant to optimum concentration), of rapeseed farms in Gorgan, an experiment was conducted as a nested model arranged in a complete randomized design (CRD) in 2010. Fifteen rapeseed fields were classified at three levels of management (optimum, middle, weak). During the experiment, questionnaires were completed by farmers for quantification of agricultural management. The results showed that levels of management are significantly difference from nitrogen nutrition index (NNI) (P<0.01). Although quantities of nitrogen nutrition index (NNI) were higher in optimum level of management than the middle and weak levels, but at all management levels during the growing season, the index was less than one. This indicates restriction in development and production due to nitrogen deficiency. Nitrogen nutrition index in yellow budding stage have, significant positive correlation (P<0.05) with seed yield, and confirmed importance of access to nitrogen sources in yellow budding stage.
Behzad Azadegan; Reza Amiri
Volume 12, Issue 1 , May 2010, , Pages 1-9
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The objective of this research was to study the effect of fertilizer management on the yield increase of crop plants. The extra amounts of applied fertilizers were studied by comparison between allocated, applied and recommended fertilizers’ amounts for: wheat, barley, corn and alfalfa with four ...
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The objective of this research was to study the effect of fertilizer management on the yield increase of crop plants. The extra amounts of applied fertilizers were studied by comparison between allocated, applied and recommended fertilizers’ amounts for: wheat, barley, corn and alfalfa with four replicates and the other data was gathered via questionnaires. Soil analysis of phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen amounts was performed in 20 fields and analysis of data was conducted base on complete randomized block design. Comparison of the averages was showed that there were significant differences between the amounts of allocated, applied and recommended fertilizers (P? 0.05). The average amounts of extra applied and extra distributed fertilizers were 382.9 and 150.6 Kg.ha-1 more than the recommended amounts, respectively. However, there was no significance increase in yield. 12 and 28% of farmers used the fertilizers in the basis of recommended and allocated, respectively and 60% of them used more than recommended amounts. Excess fertilizer application due to improper management causes reduction of soil and water quality.