Research Article
Mohammad Hudzari Bin Haji Raza
Abstract
Nitrogen is one of the macronutrients needed by all type of plants in order for them to grow into a healthy plant. Nitrogen is also one of the important elements in plants because of its role in the chlorophyll production in the leaf. Plants will grow healthy if they receive a sufficient amount of nitrogen needed. The study is conducted at Share Farm UiTM Jasin, Melaka. The YARA ALS N-Sensor has been used to determine the Nitrogen needed by the young oil palm. The result of visual analysis comes in a raster map form the sensor office website. There are 3 types of the map that which are N recommendation Map, N as-applied Map and Relative biomass map. The map is interpreted by the color on the map. For N recommendation map and N as-applied map, the darker the blue color which consists of 16.7% and 5.4% of total area respectively indicates that the area has less N in the leaf while the lighter blue color which consists of 6.0% and 6.7% of total area respectively indicates that the area has sufficient N in the leaf. As for the Relative biomass map, the darker green coloured area which consist 6.9% of the total area indicates that the area has sufficient N while for the lighter colored area which consists of 5.9% of the total area indicates that the area has less N. The area which indicates the less N needs to be applied with N based fertilizer whereas the area with sufficient N did not have to apply fertilizer but needs to be monitored.