Open AccessEFFECT OF INTEGRATED NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT ON NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY OF MAJOR NUTRIENTS: A REVIEW
Author(s) -
. Barkha,
Ananya Chakraborty
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plant archives/plant archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2581-6063
pISSN - 0972-5210
DOI - 10.51470/plantarchives.2021.v21.no1.143
Subject(s) - nutrient , nutrient management , environmental science , fertilizer , agronomy , productivity , agriculture , agricultural engineering , biology , ecology , engineering , economics , macroeconomics
Nutrient use efficiency (NUE) is an important concept in the evaluation of crop production systems. With emerging nutrient deficiencies under intensive agriculture, there is a need to improve NUE. One of the approaches to enhance it is by judicious use of fertilizers (adequate rate, effective source, methods and time of application) as well as inclusion of organic manures. Organic nutrient sources are very effective but as their availability is not sufficient to meet the nutrient demand, we have to integrate both organic and inorganic sources of nutrients together in order to achieve higher NUE. Common measures of NUE include Partial Factor Productivity (PFP), Agronomic Efficiency (AE), Apparent Recovery Efficiency (RE), Physiological Efficiency (PE) and Internal Utilization Efficiency (IE). Mineral Fertilizer Equivalent (MFE) is another parameter that can be used to assess short term release of nutrients (mainly nitrogen) from organic nutrient sources