THE IMPACT OF NANOFERTILIZERS ON NUTRIENT UPTAKE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LEACHING IN RICE SYSTEMS

Abstract

One of the favorable prospects in making crops more productive and environmental friendly grows around the use of nanofertilizers.  This experiment monitored the incident of 20 different nanofertilizer formulations on nutrient uptake, grain yield, and the environmental leaching in the rice systems in a ban controlled experiment.  The primary things that were considered included the amount of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) that was absorbed, the N and P that were leached and the amount of grain yield.  The findings indicated that the effects of performance were rather divergent between the treatments. NanoFert_5 and NanoFert_13 were most suitable in nutrient uptake, and fruit production with leaching losses that were within moderation range.  Nitrogen take up had a significant positive correlation to grain yield (R 2 = 0.72) and nano-urea treatments performed simply within the management of nutrient release.  ANOVA statistical test indicated that the effects of treatment were significant in all the variable that was assessed (p < 0.05).  The results of regression study revealed that the most significant factors which predicted the grain yield were uptakes of N and K.  The data could be easily interpreted through the means of boxplots, scatter plots, hybrid charts, and pie charts.  The results indicate that nanofertilizers not only lead to additional utilisation of nutrients, but also reduce the environmental risks to which traditional fertilisation is associated. This qualifies them to be a long-term solution of rice production in the existing precision agriculture systems.