How to recognize copper deficiency ?
Symptoms of copper deficiency vary according to plant species, stage of growth and other factors. Some general symptoms are discolouration and bleaching of leaves, retarded growth, dwarfing, poor heading, empty ears, bluish green foliage, wilting and drooping of leaves in peas and tobacco, splitting and dropping of fruit, stunting in vegetables. Detailed symptoms have been detailed earlier in this handbook. Synthetically chelated for easy absorption, CHELACOP is an organo-copper complex which effectively fulfills copper requirements of plants. CHELACOP is absorbed through leaves and being an organo-metallic complex, is not free to react with any other compound in plants and remains available to the plant for a long time. CHELACOP stimulates and regulates enzyme reactions for growth and development of crop as copper is an activator of several enzymes. It increases the chlorophyll content for green healthy leaves and also prevents leaves from chlorosis and spiraling. CHELACOP increases t
