Vol. 7 (1) : January-February 2016 issue
Green Farming Vol. 7 (1) : 111-114 ; January-February, 2016
Effect of bio-organics and fertilizer levels on nutrient uptake, yield and net returns of barley
SITA KUMAWAT1*, S.R. SHARMA2 and B.L. YADAV3
Deptt. of Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry, SKN College of Agriculture, Jobner - 303 329, Jaipur (Rajasthan)
Designation : 1Ph.D. Scholar *(sitaschem2011@gmail.com), 2, 3Professor
Subject : Soil Science & Agric. Chemistry; Soil Health & Soil Conservation Engg.
Paper No. : P-3708
Total Pages : 4
Received : 23 May 2015
Revised accepted : 31 December 2015
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Citation :
SITA KUMAWAT, S.R. SHARMA and B.L. YADAV. 2016. Effect of bio-organics and fertilizer levels on nutrient uptake, yield and net returns of barley. Green Farming Vol. 7 (1) : 111-114 ; January-February, 2016
ABSTRACT
Field studies were conducted for two consecutive rabi seasons of 2011-12 and 2012-13 to study the effect of different bio-organics and fertilizer levels on nutrient uptake, yield and net returns of barley. Results revealed that among the different bio-organics, application of vermicompost @ 5 t/ha + Azotobacter + PSB resulted in significantly maximum increase in number of effective tillers, grains/spike, test weigh, total uptake of N, P and K over control. The increasing levels of fertilizers also significantly increased the yield attributes, total nutrient uptake and net returns in barley crop and significantly maximum improvement in yield attributes, nutrient uptake and net returns was noticed up to 75% RDF over control during both the years and in pooled. The combined application of vermicompost @ 5 t/ha + Azotobacter + PSB along with 75% RDF gave significantly higher grain yield of barley (4.79 t/ha) which was 66.1% higher over control. Whereas, significantly maximum net returns (` 49472/ha) were obtained from combined application of FYM @ 10 t/ha + Azotobacter + PSB with 75% RDF.
Key words :
Barley, Bio-organics, Fertilizers, Net returns, Nutrient uptake, Productivity, Protein content, Yield attributes.