What are the advantages of band placement?
• Placing fertilizers below the seeds without touching the seeds stimulates early growth of seedlings. • For application of phosphatic fertilizers as phosphates are less mobile. Broadcast application will result in unavailability to roots. • More availability of phosphates to crops grown in acidic soils where fixation of phosphates is a problem. • Early root development will be rapid and extensive and plant growth will be stimulated. • Under rainfed conditions, due to extensive and deeper root development, plants will be able to draw moisture from lower depths of soil and better withstand drought.
