Bulletin National Fertilizer Development Center

This document examines fertilizer use and marketing to small farmers in the Dominican Republic. The effort was not intended to be an in-depth country study. It was designed to assemble secondary data and opinions of those knowledgeable of the Dominican Republic small farm and fertilizer situation and to organize that data for planning purposes by the USAID Mission to the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Republic Government in developing fertilizer-related action programs designed to increase the domestic food supply.

This bulletin is a collection of abstracts on Fertilizer Marketing selected from those appearing in Fertilizer Abstracts between July 1973 and June 1978. A similar collection was made of the material from January 1968 through June 1973, and is available in Bulletin Y-59. Together the two bulletins contain nearly 2000 abstracts and cover the majority of marketing publications over the past 10.5 years.

This manual is intended for professional and student use and requires that the reader have basic knowledge of soil, plant, and fertilizer chemistry. New features in this edition include a wider variety of experimental designs, a section on special problems, and a detailed discussion of nutrient uptake in pot experiments.