Soil & Fertilizer

The quality of soil is important to the agricultural sector, particularly to estimate the kind and amount of soil nutrients available to plants. With the content of nutrients in the soil obtained by chemical analysis, it is able to determine the amount and type of fertilizer required to achieve high and quality yields.

The three major compounds in the fertilizer such as Nitrogen (N), Phosphorous (P), and Potassium (K) are often the concern of many planters in order to help their plants to grow well. However, elements such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, magnesium, copper, cobalt, sodium, boron, molybdenum, and zinc are just as important for plant development.

Allied Chemists analysis team is qualified to perform soil and fertilizer analysis according to national quality standards to meet your requirement in research studies, nutrient management (agriculture) and also environmental baseline studies.

Test Parameters:

Soil

  • pH
  • Exchangeable Cations – Calcium (Ca)
  • Nitrogen as N
  • Exchangeable Cations – Magnesium (Mg)
  • Organic Carbon
  • Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)
  • Exchangeable Cations – Potassium (K)
  • Available Phosphorus

Fertilizer

  • Nitrogen as N
  • Zinc as Zn
  • Phosphorus as P2O5
  • Iron as Fe
  • Potassium as K2O
  • Manganese as Mn
  • Magnesium as MgO
  • Copper as Cu
  • Calcium as Ca
  • Sulphur as S
  • Boron as B

Reference Methods:

  • MS 678: 1980 – Malaysia Standard Recommended Methods for Soil Chemical Analysis
  • AOCS – Official Methods of American Oil Chemists’ society (1993)
  • ISO – International Organization of Standardization