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Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has, truthful far, developed Soil Test Crop Response (STCR) equations for 37 crops and 10 cropping sequences.
Scientists are being encouraged to make STCR models for different large crops of Tamil Nadu, according to P. Balasubramaniam, Director, Directorate of Natural Resource Management.
Soil investigating was captious for sustainable agriculture, Prof. Balasubramaniam said, presiding implicit the inaugural league of ‘STCR-based fertilizer medicine for assorted crops’ for Agricultural Officers of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department and Soil Testing Laboratories, organised by the TNAU’s Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry. Integrated nutrient absorption controls pests and occurrence of diseases, enabling accumulation of harmless nutrient devoid of residues of agrochemicals, helium said.
The speakers oriented participants connected the request for judicious and integrated usage of fertilizers and integrated manures, promoting STCR and adopting targeted output approaches.
They explained the inferior of Agri Clinic–cum–STL (Mini Soil Testing Laboratory) nether National Agriculture Development Programme.
