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Practical Exercise No.3

The document outlines the practice of foliar nutrition, which involves applying chemical fertilizers directly to plant foliage to enhance growth and address nutrient deficiencies. It details specific foliar spray recommendations for various crops, including rice, maize, groundnut, sunflower, and pulses, highlighting the advantages of this method such as rapid nutrient absorption and cost-effectiveness. Additionally, it provides instructions for preparing combined nutrient sprays and the application of growth regulators to improve crop yield and health.

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Practical Exercise No.3

The document outlines the practice of foliar nutrition, which involves applying chemical fertilizers directly to plant foliage to enhance growth and address nutrient deficiencies. It details specific foliar spray recommendations for various crops, including rice, maize, groundnut, sunflower, and pulses, highlighting the advantages of this method such as rapid nutrient absorption and cost-effectiveness. Additionally, it provides instructions for preparing combined nutrient sprays and the application of growth regulators to improve crop yield and health.

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Practical Exercise No.

Ex. No. 3. ACQUIRING SKILL IN FOLIAR NUTRITION FOR IMPORTANT


FIELD CROPS
Date: 18.11.2021

Foliar nutrition means fertilization of plants or feeding nutrients to plants by applying


chemical fertilizers to the foliage usually in the form of spray.

Advantages of foliar spray


1. The spray fluid reaches the desired tissues quickly
2. The growth and development of crop plants are accelerated
3. It overcome the deficiency of some micronutrients,
4. It is possible to apply some of the macronutrients during the critical growth period when
it is not possible to apply fertilizer in soil.
5. In plants where it takes long time for the applied nutrients to reach the place of it need,
this method is useful.

It is an economical method of fertilizing some crops

Rice
 Foliar spray of 1% urea + 2% DAP + 1% KCl at panicle initiation and 10 days later for
all varieties.

Rainfed rice
 Foliar spray of 1% urea + 2% DAP + 1%KCl at panicle initiation and 10 days later may be
taken up for enhancing the rice yield if sufficient soil moisture is ensured

Semi dry rice


 Spray Cycocel 1000 ppm (1 ml of commercial product in one lit. of water) under water
deficit situations to mitigate ill-effects.
 Foliar spray of Kaolin 3% or KCl 1% to overcome moisture stress at different
physiological stages of rice.
 Foliar spray with 1% KCl + Cycocel at 500ppm during vegetative stage is effective in
mitigating the drought and in increasing the yield

Maize
 Spray ZnSO4: 25 kg/ha at the time of sowing or foliar spray of 0.5% ZnSO 4 at critical
stages (Zn deficiency “White bud” in Maize)

Groundnut

Combined nutrient spray

Pod filling is a major problem especially in the bold seed varieties. To improve the pod
filling nutrient solution sprayis to be given. This can be prepared by soaking DAP 2.5 kg,
Ammonium sulphate 1 kg and borax 0.5 kg in 37 lit of water overnight. The next day morning it
can be filtered and about 32 litre of mixture can be obtained and it may be diluted with 468 lit of
water so as to made up to 500 litre to spray for one ha. Planofix@ of 350 ml. can also be mixed
while spraying. This can be sprayed on 25th and 35th day after sowing.

Sunflower

Spraying NAA
i) Spray the hormone Napthalene Acetic Acid (NAA) at 20 ppm concentration (20 mg NAA in
onelitre of water) on the 30th and 60th day of sowing.
ii) Use a high volume sprayer and give a thorough coverage of the entire plant.
iii) Do not use brackish water.

Boron application

Spray borax @ 0.2 % (2g/l of water) to capitulum at ray floret opening stage to improve seed set
and seed filling.

Pulses

Spraying of Diammonium Phosphate or urea, NAA and Salicylic Acid

a. Foliar spray of NAA @ 40 mg/l and salicylic acid 100 mg/lit once at pre-flowering and
another at 15 days thereafter

b. For irrigated and rainfed crops, foliar spray of DAP 20 g/litre or Urea 20 g/litre once at
flowering and another at 15 days thereafter.

DAP spray for rice fallow pulses


In the case of rice fallow blackgram, soil application is not recommended as it is mostly
raised as a residual crop.

 Spray 2% DAP at the time of first appearance of flowering.

 Give a second round of spray 15 days later.

For spraying one hectare of area, a spray volume of 600 litres is required. It is advisable to
spray the DAP with high volume sprayer. Twelve kg of DAP is taken in a plastic bucket. Add
minimum quantity of water for dissolving DAP. Keep it overnight and in the next day morning
collect the supernatant liquid for mixing with required quantity water. Normally 15 litres of
water is taken for dissolving 12 kg DAP.

Spray of growth regulators

Spraying with 40 ppm NAA is recommended twice, first at the time of flowering and
second round on 15 days later. Application of growth regulators must be done separately with
good quality water. NAA application increases the pod set and reduces the flower drop in Pulses.

Note: Dissolving 40 mg of NAA in one litre of water will give 40 ppm

Red gram

Spraying of DAP or Urea, NAA and Salicylic acid

Foliar Spray of NAA 40 mg/l and Salycylic acid 100 mg/l once at Pre-flowering andanother at
15 days thereafter

Foliar Spray of DAP 20 g/l or urea 20 g/l once at flowering and another at 15 days thereafter
Exercise:
1. Enumerate the advantages of foliar nutrition to pulses.
2. How will you prepare combined nutrient spray for groundnut crop?

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