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soils and nutRient management foR tRopical fRuit tRees
Summary:
1. Tropical fruits grow on various soils and face various nutritional problems. You have to design
nutrient management program to deal with specific problems based on your specific situation.
2. Growers often apply too much fertilizer which not only wastes money but affects tree growth
and fruit quality. Environmental impacts of over fertilizer trees are becoming more and more
concerns.
3. Soil testing and plant analyses should be used to assist nutrient management. However, you
have to use them properly.
Recommended readings
1. Plant Nutrient Disorders: Tropical Fruit and Nut Crops by Weir and Cresswell, Inkata Press,
Melbourne, 1995
2. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants by Marschner, Academic Press, New York, 1995
3. Soil Fertility and Fertilizers by Havlin et al., Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1999
4. Handbook of Soil Science by Malcolm Sumner, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2000
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