I would be glad to know the opinion of soil researchers in determining the optimum amount of chicken manure, which is ideal to be applied in date palm orchards, even direct or mixed with compost, to improve soil health for higher yield of fruits.
Dried chicken manure can be 3 3 3 full nutrient organic fertilizer.
Studies show the combining of organic fertilizer and synthetic fertilize can give optimized results in yield and cost.
If one half of the nutrient requirement could be provided by chicken maure and the other half by synthetic fertilizer it would optimize both yield and improve the based soil condition.
The chicken manure can provide carbon which will improve the water dynamics of a sandy soil which dates usually grow.
It would good to analyze the soil for the orchards and direct the fertility based on the needs.
The nutrient needs change significantly based on the phenological or plant growth stage.
Compost and hhosphate can be used at the transplant site.
20 5 10 for the vegatative growth stage along with chicken manure
10 5 20 for the flowering and date fill stages.
The use of foliar analysis can be used to fine tune the fertiliization strategy.
Thank you @Paul Reed Hepperly for your detailed answer. Could you please provide some references for that?
Yes sir, is beneficial as it is mixed with FYM or other organic manures with little inorganic fertilizers. Also add different biofertilizers may give very good results both in terms of quantity as well as qualitative dates yields.
Thank you I.V.Srinivasa Reddy for your useful tips regarding the application of chicken manure in date palm orchard. Could you please give some references for that?
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