Phosphorus availability essential for chickpeas

Updated May 25 2017 - 12:36pm, first published 12:24pm
PHOSPHORUS: NSW DPI senior research agronomist Dr Andrew Verrell says understanding a crop’s P requirements is a critical first step in maximising crop yield potential and can deliver long-term benefits to the farming system.
PHOSPHORUS: NSW DPI senior research agronomist Dr Andrew Verrell says understanding a crop’s P requirements is a critical first step in maximising crop yield potential and can deliver long-term benefits to the farming system.

CAPITALISING on the yield potential of a chickpea crop can be reliant on one simple letter – P. Adequate phosphorus (P) availability is essential to the productivity of chickpeas as soil P levels influence the crop’s ability to produce biomass, flower and set pods.

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