Wayamba SOIL: Healthy Soil for Smart Crop Production

Welcome to the Principles of Soil Science class blog at the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka! This Blog is a great way to learn soil science as a subject under the agriculture degree program of faculty of Agriculture & Plantation Management of WUSL. Soil science is more than simply the study of soil. This discipline focuses on the improvement of soil conditions for agricultural management and the conservation of natural resources.

Friday, October 14, 2016

Nitrogen as a Nutrient

By understanding the different chemical forms of Nitrogen, we can manage root-zone pH and avoid toxic buildup of ammonium.

Plants have the ability to take up several chemical forms of Nitrogen either you apply inorganic fertilizer or organic manure. The most common are: ammonium (NH4+), which has a positive charge and nitrate (NO3-), which has a negative charge. Many commercial fertilizer mixes contain a combination of all two nitrogen forms.
You can read more on this by reading following post. Pl click. NITROGEN AS A NUTRIENT