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 Healthy rice

   

Many Asian rice farmers are now using crop and fertilizer management practices that result in early growth of rice in excess of the optimum for high yield with minimal vulnerability to disease and insect pests.
 

Managing fertilizers by SSNM for optimal crop feeding helps ensure the best possible growth of rice, leading to healthy rice plants that are less prone to lodging (falling over), diseases, and pests.


 

 
 
       

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 Healthy and unhealthy rice canopy
  Image: International Rice Research Institute
 

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