When is the best time to apply potassium fertilizer to rice?
When is the best time to apply potassium fertilizer to rice? Please provide guidance. In rice production, scientific and rational application of potassium fertilizer plays an important role in cultivating robust seedlings, improving resistance to disease, pests, and lodging, as well as the seed-setting rate, and achieving high and stable yields. But during the rice planting process, when is the best time to apply potassium fertilizer?...
When is the best time to apply potassium fertilizer to rice? Please provide guidanceIn rice production, scientific and rational application of potassium fertilizer plays an important role in cultivating robust seedlings, improving resistance to disease, pests, and lodging, as well as the seed-setting rate, and achieving high and stable yields. But during the rice planting process, when is the best time to apply potassium fertilizer? You can refer to the following methods:
1. Apply an appropriate amount of potassium fertilizer at the seedling stage, as a basal fertilizer for the seedlings.
II. Apply potassium fertilizer selectively at the tillering stage.
III. Apply potassium fertilizer judiciously at the young panicle differentiation stage. At the young panicle differentiation stage, potassium fertilizer should be applied according to the early growth conditions of the rice.
IV. Apply supplemental potassium fertilizer at the booting, milk-ripe, and yellow-ripe stages.
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