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Effect of Intensive Cropping and Fertilizer Use on the Inorganic Forms of Phosphorus in a Typic Ustochrept Soil

Volume : 68
Issue: Apr-apr
Pages: 232 - 237
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Abstract


An Investigation was made to see the affect of seven years of multiple cropping and soil test based fertilizer use on the inorganic forms of phosphorus in a Typic Ustochrept soil. Under unmanured cultivation. the depletion of the phosphorus forms as compared to fallow soil. followed the order reductant soluble-P (39.4%) iron-P (22.7%) > saloid bound-P (22.0%) aluminium P (15.2%) calcium P (9.2%). Nitrogen alone further accelerated the ines of inductant soluble P. Addition of phos-phate raised the level of all the forms including the occluded-P. FYM enhanced the saloid bound form and superphosphate thes of Al P. Tharo was a progressive huild up of P in aluminium bound and reductant soluble fraction with the raise in graded doses of phosphate.

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232 - 237
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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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