Potassium Dynamics in Western Uruguayan Agricultural Mollisols

Núñez, Agustín; Morón, A.

doi:10.1080/00103624.2017.1416134

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“…The NaBPh 4 extraction method, though more specific than boiling nitric acid towards non-exchangeable K (Li et al 2015b), and many times showed better predictions of plant K uptake than NH 4 OAc (Cox et al 1999;Bilias and Barbayiannis 2017;Bilias et al 2021), is not entirely flawless. This method cannot predict the actual quantity of diffusion derived non-exchangeable K that plants can uptake (Núñez and Morón 2017), a problem common to all methods involving chemical extraction (Logan and Chaney 1983;Menon et al 1989). In this context, cation exchange resins might prove useful in appropriately assessing the availability of soil K to plants.…”

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Ongoing soil potassium depletion under intensive cropping in India and probable mitigation strategies. A review

Das

Sahoo

Raza

et al. 2022

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Potassium (K) is essential for plant growth and vital for soil health. However, despite high crop demand, K fertilization continues to be ignored or severely inadequate in Indian agriculture. Over time, this could lead to severe depletion of soil K reserve, irreversibly alter K-bearing minerals, and adversely affect soil fertility and crop productivity. Hence, we should comprehensively assess the alarming situation of soil K mining in India and come up with appropriate solutions. Keeping the above in mind, here we review the soil K pools concerning plant availability, their contents in major soil orders of India, reasons and status of soil K mining under major crops and cropping systems in India, and the impact of long-term K mining on soil K pools and clay minerals. We also address various aspects of sustainable K management in agriculture and suggest future action courses focusing on India. Our main findings are: (i) farmers in India mainly apply nitrogen and phosphorus, but little or no K; consequently, (ii) net K balance continues to be negative for most crops and cropping systems across India (e.g., -3.29 million tonnes [Mt] in 2000-01, -7.2 Mt in 2015-16); (iii) long-term K mining primarily depletes the exchangeable and non-exchangeable K pools in soil, and alters clay minerals to various extents; and (iv) the existing K fertilizer recommendations need an upward revision. We further enlist indigenous non-conventional alternatives of K fertilizers to meet the agricultural K demand. This is the first comprehensive review to simultaneously address the ongoing soil K mining in India, its impact, and its potential mitigation strategies. The points raised here would help reduce soil K mining, plan research work, and make policy decisions on K fertilization and residue management with the ultimate goal to prevent soil health deterioration and ensure sustainable crop production.

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