Complex Fertilizers for Sugarcane

Sugarcane Chittoor area (225-75-75 kg/ha)

Soil Ameliorants
Fertilizer Recommended Dose (kg) Remarks
Lime
Dolomite
Organic Fertilizers
Fertilizer Recommended Dose (kg) Remarks
Pressmud
Compost or Cattle manure
Straight Fertilizers
Fertilizer Recommended Dose (kg) Remarks
Urea
Rajphos
Muriate of Potash
Complex Fertilizers
Complex Fertilizers Recommended Dose (kg) Additional Fertilizers Required
Urea (kg) Rajphos/Mussooriphos (kg) Murate of Potash (kg)
19 all (19-19-19) 0 0 0 0
17 all (17-17-17) 0 0 0 0
15 all (15-15-15) 0 0 0 0
10 all (10-10-2010) 0 0 0 0
10-10-2004 0 0 0 0
Bone meal (3.5-21-0) 0 0 0 0
DAP (18-46-0) 0 0 0 0
Factomphos (20-20-0-13) 0 0 0 0
Ammonium phosphate (20-20-0) 0 0 0 0
Ammonium sulphate (20.5-0-0) 0 0 0 0
Ammonium nitrate (33.5-0-0) 0 0 0 0
Calcium ammonium nitrate (25-0-0) 0 0 0 0
Ammonium sulphate nitrate (26-0-0) 0 0 0 0
Nitrate of soda (16.5-0-0) 0 0 0 0
SSP (0-18-0) 0 0 0 0
Remarks:
  • Apply entire dose of phosphorus as basal dressing. When pressmud at 10t ha-1 is applied sugarcane grown in Palakkad need be given only 50 per cent of the recommended dose of P as rock phosphate.
  • In the black soil of Palakkad apply S at 60 kg ha-1 in the form of gypsum as a soil ameliorant before the final land preparation.
  • Among the sources of sulphur, gypsum is found to be beneficial in sugarcane.