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Efficacy of Calcium Ammonium Nitrate as Compared to other sources of Nitrojen for paddy.

Volume : 62
Issue: Feb-feb
Pages: 77 - 78
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Abstract


Calcium ammonium nitrate is a physiologically neutral fertilizer leaving neither acidic nor basic residue in the soil.Ammonium sulphate is physiologically acidic while sodium nitrate is physiologically basic.Wells(1964)and Balasubramaniam et al.(1967)stated that there was not significant difference in yield due to different sources of nitrogen,as CAN.ammonium et al.(1967)stated that there was not significant difference in yield due to different sources of nitrogen,as CAN.ammonium sulphate and uses,and that CAN could be used as a straight nitrogen fertilizer for top dressing paddy.

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77 - 78
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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