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Rice (Oryza sativa L.), the world’s leading staple food, is grown on 2.3 M ha alluvial, calcareous, low organic matter soils of Pakistan, giving an average paddy yield of 2.000 t ha-1 (GOP 2004). As fertilizer use in rice predominantly pertains to nitrogen (N), and to a lesser extent to phosphorus (P) and zinc (Zn) (Rashid et al. 2000), one major cause of low farm-level productivity compared with much higher potential yields (i.e. 4.00–4.50 t ha-1, M. Akram, personal communication) is inadequate and imbalanced nutrient management
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Rashid, A., Yasin, M., Ali, M.A., Ahmad, Z., Ullah, R. (2007). Boron Nutrition and Boron Application in Crops. In: XU, F., et al. Advances in Plant and Animal Boron Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5382-5_9
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