highly significantp <0.01
Yield responses and fertilizer contribution rates Yield between the NPK plots and corresponding omission plots showed a highly significant positive linear correlation ( p <0.01) ( Fig 4 ).
Yield responses and fertilizer contribution rates Yield between the NPK plots and corresponding omission plots showed a highly significant positive linear correlation ( p <0.01) ( Fig 4 ).
If only the values from OPT plots selected, the average yield ranged from 5420 kg/ha in 2002 to 7630 kg/ha in 2008 with an average of 6866 kg/ha, in general presenting an increasing trend with fluctuations ( Fig 1B ).
In general, N and K 2 O fertilizer showed a trend to slightly increase and P 2 O 5 fertilizer showed to decline in the period of 1999–2010.