Use TSP, SSP, NPK as an alternative to DAP: Official

Chief Agriculture Officer Tajinder Singh Hundal has said that farmers can use other phosphate fertilizers available in the market amid the ongoing shortage of DAP to sow the wheat crop. He said triple superphosphate (TSP) when used with urea gives the same results as DAP.

Hundal said Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has also recommended the use of other phosphate fertilizers instead of DAP. He said farmers get 18 per cent nitrogen and 46 per cent phosphorus from DAP.

He said TSP has 46 per cent phosphorous and if used with 20 kilograms of urea, it would also give similar nitrogen as available in DAP. As another alternative, farmers can use 20 kg of urea with 155 kg of single super phosphate, which has a phosphorus content of 16 per cent.