Coromandel International Limited Chennai, Tamil Nadu

A significant drop in the yield and quality of crops in the country has brought into focus the need for promoting balanced use of fertilisation and educating the Indian farmer about the deficiencies of secondary and micronutrients in the soil. A top of the agenda item for Agri-input Companies is nutrient management.

The intensification of agriculture in India has led to the increasing removal of secondary and micronutrients from the soil and multiple nutrient deficiencies, which are becoming a major constraint to further increase in production. This is essentially due to nutrient removals far in excess of nutrient additions.The greatest blame for soil nutrient depletion rests with unbalanced fertiliser application consisting of large N applications without a matching amount of other nutrients. What farmers have in fact been doing in many areas, year after year, is to use N (urea) as a shovel to extract the soil reserves of other nutrients, particularly K, P, S and in several cases micronutrients as well. It is the depletion of nutrients which has resulted in large increases in crop response to P and K with the passage of time. The real alarming situation is that in many cases even the recommended application of fertilisers results in soil nutrient depletion because they turn out to be sub-optimal for supporting high-yielding intensive cropping systems.

Zinc Sulphate Mono hydrate containing 33% zinc and 15% S is efficient for correcting Zinc deficiency either through foliar application.33% Carat contains Zinc in Zinc Sulphate monohydrate form. It contains 33% Zinc.33% Carat is in powder form. It is readily soluble in water. It is immediately and completely available to crops.By spraying 33% Carat, Zinc deficiency can be totally controlled.