Pot experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replication and six treatments in the screenhouse of Soil Science Division, Khumaltar during the year 2003 and 2004. The objective of the experiment was to find out the effect of vermicompost in combination with or without soil and mineral fertilizers on the yield and other attributes of chickpea. The results showed an encouraging effect of vermicompost application on the plant height, root length and biomass dry weight of chickpea when vermicompost was applied in equal ratio with soil (5 kg each/pot) and 10:20:15 kg N: P2O5:K2O kg ha-1. Vermicompost with equal ratio of soil (5 kg each/pot) also produced the highest mean grain yield of 10.6 gm per pot. However, no significant treatments effects were observed for root length and straw weights of the chickpea.Nepal Agric. Res. J. Vol. 9, 2009, pp. 49-55DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/narj.v9i0.11641

Under rainfed rice-wheat cropping system, experiments were conducted on wheat variety Annapurna-2 from 1998 to 2002 to study the effect of continuous application of inorganic and organic fertilizers in longer run on wheat production and soil properties in alluvial soil of Khumaltar, Lalitpur at 1365 msal. Eleven different fertilizers combinations comprised of inorganic  and organic fertilizers were used. The results of the five-year experiment  indicate that the applications of optimal level of inorganic fertilizers could  supply the plant nutrients to wheat crop to produce sustainable yield. On the other hand, organic fertilizers could help to increase the crop yield and maintain soil fertility at the same time. Residual effect of available  phosphorus applied in previous rice crop had significant response on wheat yield. For maintaining soil fertility, application of FYM and incorporation of  crop residue into soil are worth practicable.Nepal Agric. Res. J. Vol. 9, 2009, pp. 40-48DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/narj.v9i0.11640

The micronutrient required in minute quantity and their deficiency leads to diminished growth and yield of crops. The field experiment was carried out at College Farm, Rajendranagar during rabi 2015-16 with factorial randomized block design with two factors sorghum genotypes and zinc levels. Findings revealed that varieties and fertilization spray had significant on zinc concentration and uptake by grain and stover of sorghum. Variety CSV -31 (V2) and soil application of zinc sulphate @ 50 kg ha -1 + foliar spray of ZnSO4 @ 0.2% at knee high stage and at flowering (F5) gave significantly highest zinc concentration and uptake by grain and stover in comparison to their respective treatments.

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A survey was conducted for assessment of soil fertility status, leaf nutrient concentration and identification of yield limiting nutrients in twenty six oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) plantations in Surat district of Gujarat. Soil pH, electrical conductivity (EC), organic carbon (OC), available potassium (K) (NH4OAc-K), available phosphorus (P) (Olsen-P), exchangeable calcium (Ca) (Exch. Ca) and magnesium (Mg) (Exch. Mg), available sulphur (S) (CaCl2-S) and hot water soluble boron (B) (HWB) content in surface (0-20 cm depth) and subsurface (20-40 cm depth) soil layers varied widely. Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System (DRIS) norms were established for different nutrient expressions and it was used to compute DRIS indices. As per DRIS indices, the order of requirement of nutrients in the area was found to be K > nitrogen (N) > B > P > Mg. Optimum leaf nutrient ranges as per DRIS norms varied from 2.63 to 2.85%, 0.16 to 0.18%, 0.56 to 0.88%, 0.34 to 0.84% and 9.10 to 32.5 mg/kg for N, P, K, Mg and B respectively. On the basis of DRIS derived optimum ranges, 65, 31, 35 and 8 per cent leaf samples had less than optimum concentration of N, P, K and B respectively. The optimum ranges developed could be used for efficient nutrient management.