The treatment of the phosphates in Togo constitutes an important source of pollution through the dismissal of the wastes after the treatment. The wastes are rejected in the sea and on soils. It entails the contamination of marine and farm products by cadm

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of nutrient management on growth and nutrient uptake in sunflower crop during rabi, 2010 at Oilseed Research Station, College of Agriculture, Latur. Twelve treatments were tried in randomized block design with three replications. Growth parameters such as plant height (186.98 cm), number of leaves per plant (35.83), leaf area (4658 cm2), stem girth (7.89 cm), head diameter (12.76 cm) and dry matter production (76.13 g) were increased significantly due to application of 150 % RDF (T6) at various critical growth stages of sunflower followed by 60 kg N + 30 kg P2O5 + 30 kg K2O ha-1. Uptake of N, P, K, S, B, Zn and Fe were also recorded maximum i.e. 47.36, 31.08, 98.86 30.45 kg ha-1, 0.67,5.81 and 3.47 mg kg-1, respectively with treatment T6 (150 % RDF) over rest of the treatments.