Like every other crop, NARC G1 garlic also needs fertilizers for healthy growth. Nitrogen plays a major role in this regard. Multiple fertilizers are needed to be used for proper growth of NARC G1 garlic crop. These fertilizers include DAP Nutraful, Cheetah Potash, Cheeta Sulphur, Boron and Potassium Humate. Each of these fertilizers must be used according to the prescribed quantity for NARC G1 garlic crop.
These fertilizers should be used at certain stages of NARC G1 garlic growth. Banu Mukhtar Farms uses the best mix of fertilizers in the fields which is why their NARC G1 seed is deemed the best in the market. A detailed guidance about the quantity and the timing to use these fertilizers is given below.
Recommended Fertilizers (N; P; K)/acre (kg)
N; P; K at the rate of 110; 100; 140 Kg/acre is recommended for G1 garlic. Basal dose for G1 garlic is given below
Basal Dose
| Basal Dose | Quantity |
| DAP Nutraful | 2 Bag/acre |
| Cheetah Potash | 1 Bag/acre |
| Cheetah Sulphur | 25 kg/acre |
| Boron | 3 Kg/acre |
| Potassium Humate | 10 kg/acre |
The remaining fertilizers should be applied through drip irrigation on daily basis while in flood irrigation it should be applied at different stages.
Phosphorus application must be completed up to 120 days.
Nitrogen application must be completed up to 150 days.
Potash application must be completed up to 180 days.
Role of Nitrogen in the production of NARC HG1:
- Nitrogen, in a way, could be termed “a backbone” of plants based on what it does in plants. Of all the essential nutrients, Nitrogen is required by NARC HG1 Garlic in large amounts since it plays important functions and can be the limiting factor in garlic production and proper bulb development.
- Nitrogen is an essential element of all the amino acids in plant structures which are the building blocks of plant proteins, important in the growth and development of vital plant tissues and cells like the cell membranes and chlorophyll.
- Chlorophyll being an organelle essential for carbohydrate formation by photosynthesis and a substance that gives the plant their green color, nitrogen is a component in it that aids in enhancing these features.
- Nitrogen is essential in plant processes such as photosynthesis. Thus, plants with sufficient nitrogen will experience high rates of photosynthesis and typically exhibit vigorous G1 garlic growth and development.
- The increase in plant height due to nitrogen application indicates a positive role of nitrogen on plant growth.
- Yield contributing characters viz., bulb length, bulb diameter, no. of cloves per plant and single bulb weight increased significantly due to the application of nitrogen
Deficiency of Nitrogen
- Where there is an insufficient supply of Nitrogen regardless of its abundance in the atmosphere, it leads to severe plant disorders.
- The whole plant looks pale to yellowish green.
- Increased root growth and stunted shoot growth results in a low shoot/root ratio.
- Nitrogen deficiency in plants is likely to occur when other minerals like carbon are added to the soil that would directly lead to the unavailability of it to the plants.
- This is because a lot of Nitrogen will be used by soil organism to break down the harmful carbon sources “taking away” the nitrogen from the soil.
- This will automatically translate to the reduction of chlorophyll content of plants, therefore, affecting flowering, fruiting, starch and protein contents undermining plant health.
- So insufficient nitrogen application to Garlic G1 will reduced the yield of the the crop to a significant level.
SOURCES OF NITROGENOUS FERTILIZERS
The best source of nitrogenous fertilizers for NARC HG1 garlic is as follows
Ammonium sulphate…21-0-0
Nutrful Urea…..46-0-0