Benefits of Salt Fertilizer for Coconut Productivity

As we know that salt is better known by the community as the ingredients that are used for seasoning dishes without salt of course will taste tasteless of course this is what makes salt in the search but whether we know in addition to fungi it turns out salt can also be utilized for things others.

As a farmer already apply salt to be made as an alternative material as a fertilizer, when the plants are very hard to flower and produce good fruit farmers try to use salt to make fertilizer so that the plant can produce fruit.

As people consider this is a trivial thing but for farmers who have tried this way would be formed amid fertilizer prices are increasingly rising day and the process to replace the fertilizer with other materials should be quickly overcome to improve fruit productivity.

According to research from Indonesia Coffee and Cocoa Research Center published in News Center for Coffee and Cocoa Research (6/2015) on salt with formula NaCl has been revealed that the salt can replace KCL fertilizer with certain amount and dose and with Na and K simultaneously have a simultaneous role in maintaining plant turgor while activity also acts as an enzyme and also acts as a cleavage of the cells together with Cad an Mg Therefore, nutrient substitution of K and Na derived from salt can be a very feasible new way. Moreover, the K element ranks first in the amount absorbed by the plant.

Use of Salt as Fertilizer for Coconut

In neighboring countries such as Thailand salt has become organic material that is used as fertilizer to increase the productivity of coconut, the coconut condition that has a few months after planting at first make a special place that is making a hole with a depth of approximately 5-10 cm later in the lid with a bucket that has a lid on top or the like and then salt in the input into it, the distance between the hole with the salt is about 50-60 cm.

The function for making this place is that the salt is not washed away by the presence of rain that can occur at any time and why the hole to put salt is not too deep, under certain conditions salt when in direct contact with the root of the injured plant due to the multiplication will be decayed by cause it should make the hole not too deep so as not exposed to roots in coconut plants.

Giving of salt can be done every month once or or can be adjusted when the salt conditions are placed in the hole in the taste has no strong effect on the coconut fruit.

Benefits of Salt For Other Fruit Plants

Do we know that salt is not only beneficial to increase the productivity of coconut but salt can also increase other fruits such as king fruit , mango and so forth.

This experience has been done by some fruit farmers, who try to do the fertilization by using salt on the fruit that began flowering king fruit but in certain conditions many can not produce fruit and even fall out by itself but after trying to use salt as a king fruit fruit fertilizer finally the king fruit can bear fruit and produce good fruit and the next the farmer tries to plant the banana and the result is the same banana can produce a pretty good fruit.

For farmers who are concerned with the price of chemical fertilizers so skyrocketed and scheduled in 2018 there will be a revocation of subsidized fertilizer as described in the article Farmers Starting to worry, Fertilizer Subsidies will be Revoked Government Year 2018 there is no harm to the farmers to try salt as an alternative this in addition also uses organic fertilizers such as animal waste to be used as organic fertilizer.

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