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Effects of Urea Spray on Wheat in Iraq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Jagdish Seth  and
K. I. Mosluh
Jagdish Seth
Affiliation:
State Organization for Soils and Land Reclamation, Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq
K. I. Mosluh
Affiliation:
State Organization for Soils and Land Reclamation, Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq
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Summary

An experiment on wheat (variety Mexipak) was undertaken for two years at the Experimental Farm to study the effects of soil and foliar application of urea. The results indicated appreciable increases in grain yields due to foliar sprays of urea during both years of the experiment; the spray helped to increase yield-contributing factors such as thousand-grain weight, weight of grains per plant, plant height and dry weight.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 333 - 336
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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