Top Dressing Fertilizer Application. It is the broadcasting of fertilizers particularly nitrogenous fertilizers in closely sown crops like paddy and wheat with the objective of supplying nitrogen in readily available form to growing plants. It may be at planting or in standing crop as top dressing.
Broadcasting fertilizer application is also known as feeding the chickens or just tossing the pellet fertilizer from side to side down the row. How to apply top dressing fertilizer for maize broadcaster spinner. In situ application 4.
Most of the fertilizer granules bounce off the plant but a few remain on the leaves.
Also disrupts the herbicide layer. It may be at planting or in standing crop as top dressing. It s recommended to use 2 3 pounds of fertilizer per 100 square feet and spread uniformly over the surface. Spreading or broadcasting of fertilizers in the standing crop after emergence of crop is known as top dressing.
