EFFECT OF ZINC ON YIELD AND ZINC UPTAKE BY WHEAT ON SOME SOILS OF BANGLADESH

In order to study the yield and yield contributing characters, zinc concentrations and its uptake by wheat, surface soils of six different locations of Bangladesh were collected. The experiment was performed in pots in net house and chemical analysis in the Laboratory of the Department of Agricultural Chemistry BAU and Soil Science Division of BINA Mymensingh. The results obtained indicated the number of tillers per hill, grain and straw yield of wheat, zinc concentrations and zinc uptake both in grain and straw and zinc concentrations of pre-sowing and post—harvest soils were significantly increased with the application of zinc. But the effect of applied zinc was more pronounced in Khulna, BAU Farm, Maskanda and Modhupur soils than in the highly acidic…