Sugarcane is a commercial crop grown for the production of sugar and other by products like baggase, molasses, filter cake etc. Being a C4 plant assimilates larger biomass and exhausts the large quantities of macro and micro nutrients from the soil. Hence, the balanced application of nutrients is essential for achieving the higher cane and sugar production for sustaining the soil fertility level. Sulphur deficiency is exhibited in sugarcane crops where ever the oil seed crops are grown in the previous season. The critical level of available sulphur is fixed as 20 ppm for sugarcane. Hence, sulphur application is needed to achieve higher productivity in sugarcane.
Sulphur Nutrition, Sugarcane, macro and micro nutrients, higher productivity
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Mabry McCray, J., R.W. Rice., I.V. Ezenwa., T.A. Lang and L. Baucum.2013. Sugarcane plant nutrient diagnosis. Florida Cooperative Extension Service Pub. SS-AGR-128. (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/sc075)
