Using cement as fertilizer
A strange agricultural method reported on the site GlobalCement.com.
If the cement doesn't make the rice grow at least they might end up with a nice, new parking lot.
Vietnam - Jan 20, 2016: Vietnamese farmers in many localities have used cement as fertiliser for their rice fields after a farmer in Lai Vung, Dong Thap said that the move had helped him raise his yield...
Mai Quoc Hau, Head of the Agriculture and Rural Development Division of Lai Vung, said that the local authorities have known about the initiative of local farmers. The division has sent experts to work with the farmers. He said that he would report the case to the higher authorities for consideration because using cement as fertiliser was 'very strange.' Experts have warned that spraying cement to rice fields will make the land unsuitable for crop cultivation.
Mai Quoc Hau, Head of the Agriculture and Rural Development Division of Lai Vung, said that the local authorities have known about the initiative of local farmers. The division has sent experts to work with the farmers. He said that he would report the case to the higher authorities for consideration because using cement as fertiliser was 'very strange.' Experts have warned that spraying cement to rice fields will make the land unsuitable for crop cultivation.
If the cement doesn't make the rice grow at least they might end up with a nice, new parking lot.
Comments
Cement is mostly lime, so it's probably not acting as a fertilizer as such but is making nutrients in the soil more readily available. (In some areas, you have to lime fields regularly to sustain yields.)
It does contain calcium, which is important, and trace amounts of iron and sulfur, which are also important.
I'd hesitate to use it around food crops because it also contains aluminum and other metals which the plants might concentrate.
It does contain calcium, which is important, and trace amounts of iron and sulfur, which are also important.
I'd hesitate to use it around food crops because it also contains aluminum and other metals which the plants might concentrate.
Posted by Phideaux on 04/21/22 at 08:48 PM
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