Fertilisers, especially those containing NPK nutrients, have become a necessity in farming both rice fields and dry land. Most of the application of fertilisers is based on plant commodities and less based on the nature of the diversity of the soil or growing media. This study aimed to determine the balance of NPK nutrients and the nutrient elements that became the limiting factor in the rice and dryland maize cropping systems. The study was conducted at a rice field in Jember District and on dry land in Bogor District with maize plants. The fertiliser used is organic fertiliser. Nutrient balance is obtained by calculating the difference between the total input of nutrients N, P, and K given and the total output of nutrients N, P, and K transported by plants. The results showed that the combination of fertilizing treatment with biochar (50%), fish waste (25%), and chicken manure (25%) up to 10 t/ha on rice field soil at the experimental location in Jember had to limit factors for plant growth: low organic matter content, trace elements essential nutrients N and P are also low. Likewise, the combination of inorganic NPK fertiliser treatment with organic fertiliser up to 600 kg/ha on dry land in Bogor has not been able to improve its fertility status with limiting factors: low organic matter content, low N-total, and low exchangeable K.

Acid dry land generally has limiting factors of higher acidity and low nutrients availibity, so that has low productivity. However, the appropriate inputs have productivity to be better. Research on effectivness of granular organic fertilizers (GOF) to increase sweet corn production has been carried out on dry land in Bogor Regency. The purpose research was to determine the effect GOF of plant growth and enhancment production of sweet corns in acid dry land. This study used a Completely Randomized Block Design with ten treatments and three replications. The results showed that the application of GOF dose 200 kg/ha could increasing soil pH. This improvement in soil chemical properties was followed by increased growth and production of sweet corn. Besides increase the plant growth, GOF made more efficiency 25% of anorganic fertilizer usage. The combination treatment of granular organomineral fertilizers dose 600 kg/ha and NPK recommendation 75% fertilizers increase plant growth such as plant height (124,52%), number of leaves (49%), and plant stem diameter (84,3%). The combination treatment of granular organomineral fertilizers dose 200 – 400 kg/ha and NPK recommendation 75% fertilizers increase sweet corn production such fresh cobs production (345%) and dry corn stover (345%). RAE value is >100% in each GOF treatment, which is the fertilizer effective to increase the sweet corn crops. The optimum yield of maize is 17,45 ton/ha could be obtained with the application of granular organomineral fertilizers dose 275 kg/ha.