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Fertilizer and lime recommendation system for pineapple – fertcalc-abacaxi

Alexandre Paiva da Silva, Víctor Hugo Alvarez V, Adailson Pereira de Souza, Júlio César Lima Neves, Roberto Ferreira Novais, José Pires Dantas

01/Oct/2009

The nutritional demand of pineapple plants is higher than for other crops and IT depends on cultivar, fruit weight, production destination and planting density and cultivation system. However, the variation in these factors is not always taken into account in fertilization tables. The purpose of this study was to propose a fertilizer and lime recommendation system for pineapple designated FERTCALC-Abacaxi, based on systematization and modeling of literature data and the current knowledge concerning fertilization and mineral nutrition of the crop. […]