Elements essential for plant growth, macro and micro nutrients, organic and inorganic fertilizers
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Course Material
- What is soil and its significance?
- Soil colloids and clays: description and environmental significance
- Mineralogical organization of silicate clays and their methods of identification
- Sources of charges on soil colloids
- Cation and anion exchange properties of soil and their significance, Basic cation saturation percentage
- Soil pH and its importance, Buffering of soil
- Soil organic matter: sources, composition and significance
- Elements essential for plant growth, macro and micro nutrients, organic and inorganic fertilizers
- Nutrient Uptake forms, Function in plants, Deficiency symptoms. Nitrogen and phosphorus cycles
- Salt-affected and waterlogged soils: types, reclamation and management
- Waterlogged soils, types, reclamation and management
- Soil erosion: causes and remedies: soil and water conservation
- Environmental impact of agricultural and industrial wastes
- Fertilizers: Identification, composition and calculation of nutrient percentage (Practical)
- Fertilizer analysis for N, P and K
- Soil analysis for EC and pH
- Determination of soil organic matter
- Chapters 17
- Department Soil and Environmental Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. SM Shahzad
