Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry
ICPA
Bucharest
ACTIVITIES
in
Plant Nutrition and Soil/Plant Fertilization
Optimization of soil and crop fertilization (including computerized systems);
Characterizing the soil agrochemical evolution under the influence of different fertilization and crop management practices;
Fertilization technologies within sustainable crop production systems;
Formulating of new complex foliar fertilizers: research and testing;
Developing the bioinoculants with effects on plant nutrition (biological nitrogen fixation, agroavailability of micronutrients, improvement of water use by plants, etc.);
Unconventional means and methods of crop fertilization aiming at preventing nutrient dissipation within environment;
Complex glasshouse, field and laboratory testing of new domestic and foreign manufactured fertilizer products in view of approval to be used in country’s agriculture;
Nutrient balances in agricultural farms;
Use of secondary low-grade residual sources of nutrients: complex characterization and evaluation of their agronomic effectiveness;
Low input crop fertilization with assured economical efficiency;
Diagnosis of nutrient-caused disorders in plants and recommendations for their recovery;
Soil and phosphate rock chemical testing for efficient use of phosphate rock as phosphorus sources.
