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Oxalic-Acid-treated Waste Mica, a Potent Natural Supplement to K Fertilizers for Growing Wheat and Rice in Inceptisol

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Purpose

Status of soil health and soil K fertility are degrading due to crop grower’s negligence to K application for growing crops and high cost of K fertilizer. Utilization of non-conventional, low cost K sources can reduce these problems.

Method

In this study, 0.5 M oxalic-acid-treated waste mica (WM) was used to supplement conventional K fertilizer in incubation as well as pot experiments in Inceptisol.

Result

Under incubation experiment, oxalic-acid-treated WM (WM(OA)120) significantly increased plant available K over control (K0) and untreated WM treatments (WM120). During pot experiment, KCl + oxalic-acid-treated WM treatment (K30 + WM(OA)60) maintained significantly higher water soluble K (WSK), plant available K, and non-exchangeable K (NE-K) over control (K0) and untreated WM (WM120) treatments at different growth stages of wheat. Those consequently increased wheat yield and K uptake under K30 + WM(OA)60 treatment. The K30 + WM(OA)60 and KCl (K60) treatments recorded at par wheat yield and K uptake. After growing wheat, K30 + WM(OA)60 treatment maintained positive soil K balance, whereas K60 treatment produced negative K balance. As a result, K30 + WM(OA)60 treatment exerted better residual effect and produced significantly higher rice yield and K uptake as compared to K60 treatment. In K30 + WM(OA)60 treatment, oxalic-acid-treated WM successfully supplemented 50% conventional K fertilizers without hampering crop yield and K uptake and improved soil K status. After rice also, the K30 + WM(OA)60 treatment maintained better WSK, plant available K and NE-K over K60 treatment.

Conclusion

Thus, it can be inferred that KCl + oxalic-acid-treated WM treatment can supplement 50% of the K fertilizer without adversely affecting wheat and rice yields and K uptakes, maintain soil K balance, and improve the status of plant available K, WSK, and NE-K.

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The authors would like to thank the Director, ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India for providing all the facilities necessary helps and supports for this research work.

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This work was supported by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India for conducting experiments. University Grant commission provided financial support as Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship to carry out the Ph.D. research program to the first author.

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    Siddhartha Sankar Biswas, Dipak Ranjan Biswas, Abhijit Sarkar & Avijit Ghosh

  2. ICAR-National Research Centre for Orchids, Pakyong, India

    Siddhartha Sankar Biswas

  3. ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, India

    Abhijit Sarkar

  4. ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, India

    Avijit Ghosh

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Biswas, S.S., Biswas, D.R., Sarkar, A. et al. Oxalic-Acid-treated Waste Mica, a Potent Natural Supplement to K Fertilizers for Growing Wheat and Rice in Inceptisol. J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 23, 581–593 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-022-01067-5

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