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Effect of fertilizer deep placement with urea supergranule on nitrogen use efficiency of irrigated rice in Sourou Valley (Burkina Faso)

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems volume 102, pages 79–89 (2015)Cite this article

Abstract

The loss of nitrogen (N) can be very high in rice (Oryza sativa L.) fields, particularly in the irrigated rice cropping systems with very poor water control. Previous studies have reported very low (30 %) fertilizer N use efficiency by broadcasting in irrigated cropping systems. The effect of fertilizer N (prilled urea—PU) and briquettes—urea supergranules (USG) on rice yield performance and nutrient uptake was investigated in West Africa. Field experiments were carried out in Sourou valley in Burkina Faso in the wet season of 2012 and dry season of 2013. PU was broadcast applied and USG were point-placed deeply into the soil at 5–7 cm using the same fertilizer N rates (52 kg N ha−1) and two different rice varieties (FKR 19 and NERICA 62N). The results indicate that Fertilizer Deep Placement (FDP) significantly increased grain yields, particularly in the wet season as compared with broadcasting. The FDP applied to NERICA 62N produced the highest tillers and panicles numbers, leading to more yields. In wet season, FDP significantly increased agronomic efficiency by 39.43 % over PU and physiological efficiency by 24.23 %. In the dry season, differences in the average nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) between FDP and PU were not significant. The studies suggest that FDP is genotype and season-specific, and that it can be used by farmers to improve NUE and increase grain yields in the irrigated rice cropping system. Further investigations are underway to understand seasonal and genetic effect on FDP performance.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are very grateful to Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) for financing this study through their scholarship support to lead author. We also like to thank International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) for their technical and material support. We are also grateful to the National Institute of Environmental and Agronomic Research Center of North-West of Burkina Faso, in Sourou (INERA-Di) for their technical and scientific support.

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  1. Kwame N’Krumah University Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

    Alimata Bandaogo, Ebenezer Safo & Opoku Andrews

  2. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

    Robert Abaidoo

  3. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Robert Abaidoo

  4. International Fertilizer Development Center, Accra, Ghana

    Fofana Bidjokazo

  5. International Fertilizer Development Center, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

    Sansan Youl

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Bandaogo, A., Bidjokazo, F., Youl, S. et al. Effect of fertilizer deep placement with urea supergranule on nitrogen use efficiency of irrigated rice in Sourou Valley (Burkina Faso). Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst 102, 79–89 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-014-9653-6

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Keywords

  • Fertilizer deep placement
  • N uptake
  • Fertilizer use efficiency
  • Rice variety