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Floodwater ammonium, nitrogen use efficiency and rice yields with fertilizer deep placement and alternate wetting and drying under triple rice cropping systems

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Fertilizer management should consider optimum time, rates and methods of application to increase use efficiency and crop yield. We conducted field experiments at Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh, to investigate the effects of deep placement of urea briquettes (UB) and NPK briquettes (NPK) compared to broadcast prilled urea (PU) at different N rates on dynamics of floodwater NH4 +-N, ammonia (NH3) volatilization, rice yield and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) during four consecutive rice-growing seasons in 2012–2013. The floodwater NH4 +-N and NH3 volatilization in broadcast PU increased with N rates, while in deep-placed treatments irrespective of N rates it was similar to the control. Across seasons and water regime, UB or NPK significantly (P < 0.05) increased grain yield and nitrogen recovery compared to broadcast PU. During the Boro season (across water regime), UB78 and NPK78 increased grain yield by 40 and 29 %, respectively, compared to broadcast PU78, while N recovery increased from 35 % of PU to 63–67 % in deep placement. Deep placement of UB52 or NPK52 during Aus–Aman and UB78 or NPK78 during Boro can be one of the best N management options for increasing NUE and crop yield. Alternate wetting and drying irrigation, though, had no significant effect on grain yield or on NUE. Its adoption could save irrigation water without any yield reduction during the Boro season. However, more studies across different soils, climate and management practices are needed for further understanding the interactive effects of fertilizer and water management on yield, NUE and soil fertility.

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Acknowledgments

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided support for this research through the project “Accelerating Agriculture Productivity Improvement-Integrating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation into the Feed the Future Bangladesh Fertilizer Deep Placement Rice Intensification (cooperative agreement number AID-388-A-10-00002).”

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  1. Department of Soil Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

    Azmul Huda, M. R. Islam, Md. R. Islam, Hasina Afroz, Alee Halder & M. Jahiruddin

  2. EurAsia Division, International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), House 4B, Road 62, Gulshan 2, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Yam Kanta Gaihre & M. Abdus Satter

  3. International Fertilizer Development Center, Muscle Shoals, AL, USA

    Upendra Singh & Joaquin Sanabria

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Huda, A., Gaihre, Y.K., Islam, M.R. et al. Floodwater ammonium, nitrogen use efficiency and rice yields with fertilizer deep placement and alternate wetting and drying under triple rice cropping systems. Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst 104, 53–66 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-015-9758-6

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