Long-term nutrient management experiment - Solapur
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To study nutrient management practices using either organic or inorganic N fertilisers or their combinations.
- Data Access Statement
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Site: Experiment site
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- SolapurMaharashtraIndia
- Geographic location
- 17.85, 75.533333
- Elevation
- 480 Metres
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil type
- vertisol
- Soil description
- Clayey texture
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? soil pH 7.8 soil organic carbon 2.7 gram per kilogram plant available nitrogen 154 kg nitrogen per hectare plant available phosphorous 12.5 kg phosphorous per hectare plant available nitrogen 775 kg potassium per hectare - Climatic type
- tropical dry savanna climate
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units precipitation 721 millimeter air temperature (16.4 – 42.4) degree Celsius
Design period: (1987—)
- Design Type
- Randomized complete block design
- Design description
- Plots measure 11.7 x 10m
- Number of replicates
- 3
- Crop
Crop Years grown sorghum - Factor
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- nitrogen fertilizer exposure Where the treatment is a combination of inputs, the inputs are the same as those used in individual treatments.
none
inorganic nitrogen fertilizers (25 kgN/ha)
Chemical form: ureacrop residue (25 kgN/ha)
Chemical form: sorghum strawfarmyard manure (25 kgN/ha)
Chemical form: farmyard manuregreen manure (25 kgN/ha)
Chemical form: Leucaena loppingsinorganic nitrogen fertilizer, crop residue (50 kgN/ha)
green manure, crop residue (50 kgN/ha)
inorganic nitrogen fertilizer, farmyard manure (50 kgN/ha)
inorganic nitrogen fertilizer, green manure (50 kgN/ha)
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment grain yield trait Not specified forage yield Not specified soil properties Not specified
Related publications
- Ghosh, D., Murmu, S., Adhikary, S., Mukherjee, A. K., Mal, S., Khanam, R., Pawar, A., Pharande, A. L., More, N. B., & Mandal, B. (2022). Sulphur flow in soil–plant system with long-term agricultural practices on a Vertisol. European Journal of Soil Science, 73( 6), e13318 https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13318 [In English]