A STUDY ABOUT THE DETERMİNATİON OF THE SOİL PHOSPHATE (PHOSPHORUS) CONTENT OF EAST BLACK SEA REGİON OF TURKEY AND PHOSPHATE CONTENT OF HYBRID TEA PLANTS GROWN IN THIS AREA

 * Muammer SARIMEHMET

    SUMMARY

    The research which is a subject of this paper,is realised in two parts.In the first part of this study , all of the tea  plantations are surveyed and soil samples are collected so, each soil sample represents 500 decare of land.Thus 1678 soil samples are collected to represent 63,800 hectare of land where tea is grown.Not only the other analysis but also phosphate contents of these samples which can be used by tea plant are determined  and as a result, it is found that in 83.2 % of the soils the phosphate content is low or too low.

    In the second part of the study, 3 locations in the region are chosen, and in each  plantation four plants are chosen.During the two  years , in harvesting periods  leaf samples are collected from those chosen plants.

    Phosphate contents of the leaves were found as 0.43 % , 0.34 % , 0.26 %, 0.17% in the bud+first leaf,second leaf,third+fourth leaves , and old leaf respectively.At the same time phosphate contents of local and foreign produced teas were determined and it was found that phosphate contents of local produced teas were lower than phosphate contents of foreign produced teas.

* Atatürk Çay ve Bahçe Bitkileri Araştırma Enstitüsü , RİZE.
 Toprak İlmi Derneği (Soil Science Society Of Turkey) 10 Bilimsel Tebliğler.1980,ANKARA.



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