Abstract

FERRANDO, Marcelo; FERNANDEZ, Mariano  and  BARBAZAN, Mónica M.. Rice Response to Potassium Fertilization in the Uruguayan Flooded Management System. Agrociencia Uruguay [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.2, pp.59-64. ISSN 1510-0839.

Recent nutritional surveys and studies of response to the addition of potassium (K) in various non-irrigated crops have shownthat this nutrient is one of the limitings of the crop production in Uruguay. In rice, although there is national information of studiesof K fertilization, it is only for some varieties, with management practices different from the current ones, with non-consistentresults. The aim of this study was to explore the response to K in commercial rice crops on sites located in the main area ofrice production of Uruguay, the Laguna Merín Basin. During the crop season of 2011-12 and 2012-13, K-response trials wereinstalled in three commercial rice crops in soils with 0.14, 0.19, and 0.25 cmol kg-1 exchangeable K, measured with acetateammonium 1 M to pH 7. The treatments were four rates of K (30, 60, 120, and 240 kg ha-1 of K2O) applied as K chloride (KCl)plus a control, without K application. The total K concentration in leaves early in the season did not change significantly with Kapplication, but the grain yield was increased (P < 0.02) in the three sites. The response was at the lowest doses applied, andthe increases in grain yield ranged from 999 to 1375 kg ha-1. These results indicate the need to continue the studies on thisnutrient in different rice production systems and associated soils.

Keywords : exchangeable potassium; foliar concentration; grain yield.

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