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Sweet onion growers want larger jumbo bulbs for the consumer market. They also want to increase the longevity of onion storage to maintain optimum price in the marketplace. YaraLiva™ products give the grower just what he needs to increase his profitability.
It has been known for quite some time that nitrate nitrogen increases growth and dry matter yield of high value crops such as onion compared to ammoniacal nitrogen.
Throughout the growing season, larger onions will be produced with YaraLiva™ calcium nitrate based fertilizers. Why? Nitrate nitrogen is immediately available to crops and is not toxic in large concentrations such as ammoniacal nitrogen. Nitrate nitrogen helps in the uptake of other important nutrients into tissue such as potassium, magnesium and calcium.
Calcium is a very important nutrient for sweet onion storage.
Calcium pectate is the "glue" that holds plant cell walls together. When calcium uptake is increased, the plant cell wall becomes thicker and is less susceptible to bulb rot micro-organisms. Onion bulb with low calcium experience high percentage losses due to storage rot.
When you put it all together, YaraLiva™ products give the onion grower just what he wants, high yielding larger bulbs that store well.
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