COMPARATIVE EFFICIENCY OF SOLID AND LIQUID FERTILIZERS IN SUGARCANE

Abstract

The respected field study comprising of five treatments of different solid and newly introduced liquid fertilizers was carried out at Sugarcane Research Institute, Faisalabad during two successive growing seasons of 2004-2005 and 2005-06. Experiment was planned to explore the effect of both fertilizer forms (solid and liquid) on the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of spring planted sugarcane variety SPF-245 that was used in the reported investigation. The results obtained showed that germination, CCS and sugar recovery, were not significantly effected while tillers per plant, number of millable canes, cane yield, and sugar yield were significantly effected by various fertilizer combinations in different treatments. Higher number of millable canes (110.20), cane yield (72.93 t/ha) and sugar yield (9.14 t/ha) were observed in that treatment where solid fertilizers in vogue were applied while other treatments, except control, produced lower results with respect to these parameters.