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Plant Demand Adapted Fertilization in Organic and Precision Farming

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The major agricultural challenges in the developing world are in ensuring food and nutritional security, improving soil health and maintaining environmental quality. Reduced usage of organics, imbalanced fertilizer use, inherent soil constraints and emerging nutrient deficiencies are the major contributors of poor soil health. The hotspots of N fertilizer application have shifted from the USA and Western Europe in the 1960s to eastern Asia in the early 21st century thus bringing soil sustainability concerns. Simultaneously, the interest in low external inputs or organic agriculture has increased. This review presents some the important lessons learnt in precision chemical fertilization and organic fertilization effects on productivity and soil health. Both approaches provide solutions to ensure improved fertilizer use efficiency in the short-term and maintain soil fertility in the long term. But organic farming generally lacks the potential for a short-term on-the-go reaction especially with respect to fertilizer application. It is argued that organo-mineral precision fertilization has the advantages of nutrient supply in sufficient quantities, nutrient efficiency and soil health improvement. Organo-mineral precision fertilization (OM-PF) requires long term research on nutrient availability, crop yields, effects on soil biology and fertility.

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    D. L. N. Rao & P. Dey

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Rao, D.L.N., Dey, P., Reddy, K.S. (2021). Plant Demand Adapted Fertilization in Organic and Precision Farming. In: Benckiser, G. (eds) Soil and Recycling Management in the Anthropocene Era. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51886-8_6

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