Fertilizer Deep Placement

This post is published at IFDC website (International Fertilizer Development Center)

Fertilizer Deep Placement (FDP) is an innovative, proven fertilizer application technology that achieves average yield increases of 18 percent while reducing fertilizer use by about one-third. FDP is known as urea deep placement or UDP, when only urea is applied.

How Farmers are Utilizing FDP

The global population is expected to increase from more than 7 billion today to 9.6 billion by 2050, creating enormous challenges as the world’s farmers work to provide adequate quantities of nutritious food.

Farmers in a number of developing countries are using fertilizer deep placement (FDP) technology to increase crop yields and incomes, reduce the amount of fertilizer used and lessen environmental damage to the atmosphere and water.

What is FDP Technology?

Working with farmers (particularly in Bangladesh) for over 20 years, IFDC developed FDP as a more effective alternative to the traditional method of applying fertilizer by surface broadcasting (spreading, usually by hand) across a field or paddy.