Articles and Papers

Turkey is a particularly appropriate venue for a conference on zinc in crops because it was here, in the early 1990s, that around 50% of soils in the main wheat growing area were shown to be zinc deficient. Starting in 1991, Ismail Cakmak and colleagues from Cukorova University, research institutes in Eskisehr and Konya, and CIMMYTAnkara, demonstrated that the disappointing yields of new, high yielding wheat varieties over large areas of Central Anatolia were due to zinc deficiency. They showed that zinc applications markedly increased yields by and average of 58% and now more than 300,000 t of zinc-containing fertilisers are applied regularly...read more

published in the September, 2007 issue of New AG International.

Abstracts of the papers presented at the International Conference

Zinc Deficiency in Crops: Causes and Correction

Prof. Brian J Alloway, Consultant to IZA & Emeritus Professor of Soil Science, University of Reading, UK
Key note paper presented to 15th International Symposium of the International Scientific Centre for Fertilizers, 27-30 September 2004

Special feature, New Ag International, September 2004, reproduced with the kind permission of New Ag International http://www.newaginternational.com