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The major portion of nitrogen nutrition of flooded rice is met through the mineralization of organic forms of N present in soil. This is true even when fertilizer nitrogen is added. The mineralization of organic matter under waterlogged conditions is governed mainly by the prevailing chemical and biological conditions. In recent years, attempts have been made to characterize the products of hydrolysis of soil organic nitrogen (Asami & Hara, 1970; Shinde, 1978; Subba Rao & Ghosh, 1981). Information on different fractions of nitrogen in waterlogged rice soils is scanty.

SummaryAn assessment of the status of available micronutrients has been made in a long term field experiment on a fixed rotation of soybean-potato-wheat at the Ranchi Agricultural College, Kanke on acid soil. Results of eight years fertilizer applications with lime has resulted in reduction of available micronutrients whereas the FYM application with balanced dose of chemical fertilizers increased the available micronutrients of soil. The maximum loss of 1.0 Zn and 13.2 Fe kg/ha respectively were from the lime treated plots with balanced dose of fertilizers and the highest gain of 0.26 Zn, 1.08 Cu, 13.2 Fe and 54.0 Mn kg/ha respectively were recorded from the FYM treated plots with balanced dose of chemical fertilizers. Organic carbon was significantly positive correlated with av. Zn & Mn, whereas av. Mn significantly negative correlated with pH. Other relationship were found to be non significant.