Claim · model-written summary
Heavier fertilizer rates encouraged continuous vegetative growth in sugarcane.
- Taxon
- Sugarcanet0
- Treatment
- Heavier rates of fertilizere0
- Outcome
- continuous vegetative growthe0
- Direction
- encouragede0
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Verbatim
t0“Sugarcane”
e0“Heavier rates of fertilizer encouraged continuous vegetative growth, resulting in increased tonnage of cane with a reduction of Brix in the stalk juice.”
Title
Fertilizer Rates on Sugarcane for Sirup Production
Kelly C. Freeman Agronomy Journal 1972. doi:10.2134/agronj1972.00021962006400050027x
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Intervention effect Increasing fertilizer rates increased cane yield in the two sugarcane varieties.
- Intervention effect Increasing fertilizer rates generally decreased Brix of sugarcane juice.
- Intervention effect Doubling fertilizer from 673 to 1,346 kg/ha increased sirup yield by only 159 liters/ha.