A Mitigation Approach to Alleviate Arsenic Accumulation in Rice through Balanced Fertilization

Table 1

(a) Specific fertilizer recommendation for BR 29 for high yield goal (7.5 ± 0.75 t/ha)

Soil analysis interpretation	Fertilizer recommendation (kg/ha)
	N	P	K
Optimum	0–56	0–10	0–33
Medium	57–112	11–20	34–66
Low	113–168	21–30	67–99
Very low	168–224	31–40	100–132

(b) Specific fertilizer recommendation for BR 35 and BR 36 for high yield goal (5.0 ± 0.50 t/ha)

Soil Analysis Interpretation	Fertilizer Recommendation (kg/ha)
	N	P	K
Optimum	0–35	0–5	0–20
Medium	36–70	6–10	21–40
Low	71–105	11–15	41–60
Very low	106–140	16–20	61–80

(c) Fertilizers applied for BR-22, BR-23 and BR-25 rice during aman season

	BR-22 and BR-23			BR-25
	N	P	K	N	P	K
Soil test value status	Very low	Very low	Low	Very low	Very low	Low
STVI (kg/ha) for high yield goal	91–120	16–20	35–51	61–80	13–16	23–33
Fertilizer application	95 kg/ha	18 kg/ha	45 kg/ha	64 kg/ha	14 kg/ha	29 kg/ha