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Iron Deficiency Symptoms This deficiency majorly found in Coimbatore, Erode, Nilgiris, Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari, Thiruvannamalai, Cuddalore and Villupuram districts of Tamil Nadu. Sandy land soil is contaminated by high limestone and iron rich sol are prone to this deficiency. Lesser aerated soil, sodic and saline soil types prone to this deficiency. The pale color of the leaves, low in chlorophyll, leaf area shrunken, yellow color, the veins are green in color. The leaves eventually turn yellow over during severe deficiency then turns pale yellow in color Correction Measure One hundred (10 g / liter) Ferrous sulphate through the spray solution by three times in the space of ten days or Apply Ferrous sulphate by 25 kg per hectare as basal.

Deficiency Symptoms

This deficiency majorly found in Coimbatore, Erode, Nilgiris, Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari, Thiruvannamalai, Cuddalore and Villupuram districts of Tamil Nadu. Sandy land soil is contaminated by high limestone and iron rich sol are prone to this deficiency. Lesser aerated soil, sodic and saline soil types prone to this deficiency.

Correction Measure

One hundred (10 g / liter) Ferrous sulphate through the spray solution by three times in the space of ten days or Apply Ferrous sulphate by 25 kg per hectare as basal.