Agricultural sector acts as a major consumer of water which accounts for 70 percent global freshwater use. Water scarcity an imminent threat to agriculture, there is need use those irrigation and management practices that could overcome this overwhelming situation scarcity. Lab incubation study was designed evaluate the effect different moisture levels (50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 100% FC) on nitr...

With current agricultural practices the amounts of fertilizer N applied are frequently more than the amounts removed by the crop. Excessive N application may result in short-term accumulation of nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N) in soil, which can easily be leached from the root zone and into the ground water. A management practice suggested for conserving accumulated NO3-N is the application of oily fo...