IFFCO Nano Urea and IFFCO Nano DAP are now making its story in United States of America. IFFCO is promoting its Nano Urea and Nano DAP through KAP Organics. It is said that if you gain entry into the USA market, it becomes easy for you in rest of the markets, including even in your domestic market.
Mr Yogendra Kumar, Marketing Director, IFFCO visited the product validation field trial on Almonds at California. The results are extremely promising and application of Nano Urea and Nano DAP has resulted in higher flowering and fruit setting in almonds.
Similar trials are also planned in Pistachio, Wall Nuts, Cotton and Maize in California in the ensuing season.
Mr Ajay Bawa of KAP Organics gave a detailed description of Nano impact on almonds in California. He says that that the fields where divided in four parts of 20 acres each. Increasing percentage of Nano fertilizers were sprayed in the four parts.
The one with the highest percentage noted a much higher and healthier output of almonds. “Four weeks after the first spray, when we saw we found that the part of the land sprayed with the highest percentage of Nano registered massive growth”, said Bawa.
He also said that in this part of the land two stages of flowering were seen and the size of the leaf and that of fruit were bigger. He thanked Yogendra Kumar and senior Scientist Mr Laxman for making it possible for the KP Organics to do the trails in USA.
In India, however, after the rigourous trails not only by the farmers led by IFFCO but also by the and the premium ICAR research institutes and state agricultural universities, Nano is being extensively used across states.
Different aspects associated with crop productivity; reduction in fertilizer dosage, farmers profitability have been addressed through these trials.
Summary of results of application of Nano urea – liquid (Nano N) across different locations and agro-climatic regions has revealed that foliar application of Nano urea at critical growth stages of crops like Rice, Wheat, Maize, tomato, cucumber and capsicum etc., lead to reduction in application of nitrogenous fertilisers and also increase yield in range of 3-23 % in wheat; 5- 11 % in tomato; 3-24 % in paddy / rice; 2-15 % in maize, 5 % in cucumber and 18 % in capsicum.
Science and scientific endeavours are a continuous process and significant efforts go in the process from concept to translation stage. Nano fertilizers are novel in the way that they provide immense opportunity in terms of addressing the challenges being faced by intensive agriculture practices currently underway which are ultimately harming the soil, air and water in the long run.
It is therefore prudent that Nano fertilizers like Nano urea are holistically viewed in perspective of declining nutrient use efficiency (NUE) of chemical fertilizers and alternative solutions that need to be made available to farmers.
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