Factors affecting crop production have been broadly grouped into two categories: 1. Genetic/Internal Factors 2. Environmental or External Factors. 1. Genetic/Internal Factors: Importance of genetics can be easily known with the development and introduction of new varieties & hybrids of cultivated crops and consequently upon there has been a big jump in the production & productivity of crops. With the [...]
Some of the factors that affect crop production are explained below: 1. Crop Choice 2. Good Seed 3. Nutrients 4. Crop Enemies 5. Management. Factor # 1. Crop Choice: When a country is first settled by Europeans, the first plants grown are usually pioneering crops like the cereals. After a while the pioneers find that these crops do not do [...]
List of fertilisers containing phosphorus:- 1. Single Superphosphate 2. Triple Superphosphate 3. Ammonium Phosphates 4. Nitro-Phosphates 5. Bone Meal 6. Basic Slag 7. Rock Phosphate. Fertiliser # 1. Single Superphosphate: Single superphosphate (ordinary superphosphate) is manufactured by mixing equal parts of rock phosphate and sulphuric acid (batch mix process). Phosphate originally present as apatite is converted into mono-calcium phosphate. Gypsum, [...]