Essential Role of Nutrition for Cereals

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A leading manufacturer of industrial chemicals including methanol, nitric acid and carbon dioxide.

The largest Indian manufacturer of ammonium nitrate.

"Mahadhan" brand fertilisers are effective for a wide variety of crops.

Essential Role of Nutrition for Cereals

Good Nutrition

Improves crop establishment, winter hardiness and tillering

Enhances disease resistance (take all, snow rot)

Increases fertility (more grains per ear)

Gives better grain quality

Key Nutrients

A deficiency of one or more of these elements seriously affects vigour, productivity, quality and yield

Iron

Iron is very important for chlorophyll formation, photosynthesis and protein synthesis

Deficiency symptoms are...

- Pale yellow plants
- Stunting
- Reduced tillering
- Interveinal yellow chlorosis on younger leaves

Magnesium

Vital for good crop establishment

Deficiency symptoms...

- Alternate green and pale yellow bands along leaves
- Older leaves affected first
- Leaves dieback prematurely

Manganese

Improves crop establishment winter hardiness, disease resistance and gives a better grain quality

Deficiency symptoms...

- Pale yellow streaks and random brown flecks on leaves
- leaves may appear floppy
- Usually seen in patches across a field

Copper

Essential for ear and grain development

Deficiency symptoms...

- Spiralling of younger leaves
- Leaf tips shrivel
- Ears show blind grain sites or poor grain formation

Zinc

Necessary for ear development and grain quality

Deficiency symptoms...

- Parallel yellow bands appear at either side of the leaf midrib
- There may be a yellow/orange tint during early growth stages

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