07 May Best management practices for safe and economic use of Nitrogenous fertilizers
नाइट्रोजन उर्वरकों के सुरक्षित और लाभदायक उपयोग के लिए सर्वश्रेष्ठ प्रबंधन पद्धतियां Indian agriculture has witnessed a tremendous fourfold increase in food production over the past three decades. This enhanced food grain production later known as ‘green revolution’ could be mainly attributed to the introduction of high-yielding, input responsive cultivars of wheat and rice in the mid-1960s and to the increased availability and use of chemical fertilisers, especially the nitrogenous (N) fertilizers. Nitrogenous fertilizers supply N which is very essential for plant growth and development and mainly supplied to the crop plants in the form of urea, Diammonium phosphate (DAP) etc. When N fertilizers are used correctly they are very beneficial, but...