Role of zinc-coated urea fertilizers in improving nitrogen use efficiency, soil nutritional status, and nutrient use efficiency of test crops

The rise in global population, urbanization, and desertification pushes the farming community toward intensive cropping to meet augmented food demands with consequent exhaustion of soil’s nutritional status fertility. In recent times, environmental pollution cost crop production have been enhanced due excessive inefficient use nitrogenous fertilizers. As an abatement strategy, seven different coated urea fertilizers, namely, gelatin-coated (G), zinc oxide (ZnOG), oxide-coated (ZnO), sonicated (ZnO-Son), molasses-coated (ZnOM), sulfate (ZnSM), sulfate-coated (ZnS) were prepared a fluidized bed coater. samples characterized through XRD, SEM, FTIR techniques, while crushing strength test was carried out assess impact inventory operations on physical integrity prills. Pot tests ryegrass ( Lolium perenne ) as evaluate effect fertilizers yield nitrogen (N) uptake order enhance efficiency reduce pollution. Our results suggest that affinity between surface coating materials nature. All oxide- or treatments significantly increased dry matter yield, uptake, apparent recovery (ANR), (AZnR). ZnOG proved be best sample terms balancing soil chemical properties improved nutrition producing plant (94% higher than UC), N (75% Zn (450% (48 vs. 23% for UC). such can lead improve yields, values crops, overall agro-ecological scenario.