vi, 126 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Chapter 1: Concepts of soil fertility and productivity. Law of the minimum; essential elements; soil texture and structure; water availability; soil compaction; non-wetting sands; soil colloids; ionic activity; cation exchange capacity; anion retention; organic matter; soil depth; topography; soil o...

denitrification; stabilizing nitrogen; nitrification and urease inhibitors; fixation of nitrogen; losses of nitrogen from the soil; nitrogen and soil acidity; sources of fertilizer nitrogen -- Chapter 4. Phosphorus. The role of phosphorus; deficiency symptoms; phosphorus in the soil; movement of pho...

Their role in plants; deficiency symptoms; their occurrence in the soil; sources of calcium, magnesium and sulfur; interaction of sulfur with nitrogen -- Chapter 7: Micro-nutrients. Soil-plant relationships; boron, chlorine, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, zinc and their application; sources of...

profitability of fertilizer application; fertilizer budgeting; balanced use of fertilizer nutrients; mycorrhizae; crop diseases and rotations, nitrogen fertilizer and grain protein, organic fertilizers - Chapter IO. Plant nutrients and the environment. Water use efficiency; nutrients and the environ...

effect of phosphorus fertilizers on soil cadmium; lead in soils, plants, food, and human health; mercury in fertilizers, soils, food and human health; heavy metals in fertilizer products -- Chapter 12. Precision agriculture - an overview. Core technology; data acquisition; global positioning systems...