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The Role of Crop Residues to Meet the Fertilizer Shortage

Volume : 62
Issue: Jun-jun
Pages: 353 - 356
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Abstract


Crop residues contribute considerably to the soil organic matter and other plant nutrients.An attempt was made to gather this information on various crop residues.It was observed that finger millet stubbles add more of N P K than rice.samai,maize, panivaragu gingelly,cowpea and luceme.It is recommended that finger miller could be included in multiple cropping sequen -ces for maintaining soil fertility.

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353 - 356
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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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