1. Introduction
1.1 Development of Fertilizer Recommendation Guide in Bangladesh
1.2 Use of Fertilizer Recommendation Guide

2. Plant nutrients
2.1 Essential nutrient elements
2.2 Nature and supply of plant nutrients
2.3 Functions of plant nutrients
2.4 Deficiency symptoms of nutrients in plants
2.5 Availability of plant nutrients in soils
2.6 Critical limit of nutrients
2.7 Nutrient uptake by crops
2.8 Nutrient balance

3. Fertility status of soils in different agro-ecological zones

4. Crop response to added nutrients and their recommendations
4.1 Biological response
4.2 Socio-economic aspects of balanced fertilizer use

5. Fertilizer
5.1 Types of fertilizer/fertilizer materials
5.2 Fertilizer use in Bangladesh
5.3 Fertilizer use in other countries

6. Fertilizer management
6.1 Balanced use of fertilizers
6.2 Efficient use of fertilizers
6.3 Rationale
6.4 Time and method of fertilizer application
6.5 Fertilizer management in multiple cropping system
6.6 Fertilizer management in minimum tillage
6.7 Fertilizer management in problem soils
6.8 Fertilizer management in hill farming
6.9 Liming

7. Soil organic matter management
7.1 Significance of soil organic matter
7.2 Organic matter status in Bangladesh soils
7.3 Management of soil organic matter
7.4 Organic farming
7.5 Use of biofertilizer

8. Integrated plant nutrition system (IPNS)
8.1 Concept
8.2 IPNS activities under SFFP
8.3 Organic materials available at farm level
8.4 Composition of organic materials
8.5 Computation of IPNS

9. Quality control of fertilizers

10. Fertilizer recommendation for crops and cropping patterns

10.1 Fertilizer recommendation for Cereal, Fibre, Pulse, Oilseed, Root and Tuber, Vegetable and Spice Crops

10.2 Fertilizer recommendation for fruit and plantation crops
10.3 Location specific fertilizer recommendations using Thana Nirdeshika

11. Fertilizer recommendation for cropping patterns under different AEZs

AEZ 1: Old Himalayan Piedmont Plain
AEZ 2: Active Tista Floodplain
AEZ 3: Tista Meander Floodplain
AEZ 4: Karatoya-Bangali Floodplain
AEZ 5: Lower Atrai Basin
AEZ 6: Lower Purnabhaba Floodplain
AEZ 7: Active Brahmaputra-Jamuna Floodplain

AEZ 8: Young Brahmaputra and Jamuna Floodplain
AEZ 9: Old Brahmaputra Floodplain
AEZ 10: Active Ganges Floodplain
AEZ 11: High Ganges River Floodplain
AEZ 12: Low Ganges River Floodplain
AEZ 13: Ganges Tidal Floodplain
AEZ 14: Gopalganj-Khulna Bils
AEZ 15: Arial Bil
AEZ 16: Middle Meghna River Floodplain
AEZ 17: Lower Meghna River Floodplain
AEZ 18: Young Meghna Estuarine Floodplain

AEZ 19: Old Meghna Estuarine Floodplain
AEZ 20: Eastern Surma-Kushiyara Floodplain
AEZ 21: Sylhet Basin
AEZ 22: Northern and Eastern Piedmont Plains
AEZ 23: Chittagong Coastal Plain
AEZ 24: St. Martin;s Coral Island
AEZ 25: Level Barind Tract
AEZ 26: High Barind Tract
AEZ 27: North-Eastern Barind Tract
AEZ 28: Madhupur Tract
AEZ 29: Northern and Eastern Hills
AEZ 30: Akhaura Terrace

12. Fertilizer Recommendation for multiple cropping

13. Appendices

Appendix -1 : Fertilizer sales by production and year from 1980-81 to 2002-03 in Bangladesh
Appendix -2 : Nutrient composition of different chemical fertilizer
Appendix -3 : Trends in fertilizer nutrient use in selected South and Southeast Asian countries
Appendix -4 : Nutrient concentration in different organic manure/materials
Appendix -5 : Nutrient concentration in green manure and crops residues
Appendix -6 : Inoculant and seed requirement of different legumes grown in Bangladesh
Appendix -7: Interpretation of soil test value based on critical limit
Appendix -8: Location specific and yield goal oriented fertilizer recommendation for crops based on soil test values.
Appendix -9 : Site specific fertilizer recommendation for crops & copping patterns on the basis of soil test, yield goal & rationales
Appendix-10: Symbols and atomic weights of some elements
Appendix-11: Useful chemical conversion factors
Appendix-12: Classification of soil on the basis of organic matter content and cation exchange capacity
Appendix-13: Classification of soils on the basis of potassium bearing minerals in the clay fractions
Appendix-14: Classification of land type
Appendix-15: Available forms of plant nutrient
Appendix-16 : Method of soil sample collection for analysis