Vol. 4 (1) : January-February 2013 issue
Green Farming Vol. 4 (1) : 66-68 (January-February, 2013)
Response of medicinal rice (Oryza sativa L.) cv Njavara to system of rice intensification and other management systems
S. RANIa1* and P. SUKUMARIb2
aDepartment of Agronomy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore - 641 003 (Tamil Nadu), bCollege of Agriculture (Kerala Agricultural University), Vellayani, Trivandrum - 695 522 (Kerala)
Designation : 1Senior Research Fellow *(malarrani@rediffmail.com), 2Professor
Subject : Agronomy and Crop Production
Paper No. : P-0770
Total Pages : 3
Received : 25 July 2012
Revised accepted : 29 October 2012
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Citation :
S. RANI and P. SUKUMARI. 2013. Response of medicinal rice (Oryza sativa L.) cv Njavara to system of rice intensification and other management systems. Green Farming Vol. 4 (1) : 66-68 ; January-February, 2013
ABSTRACT
This study looks at the effect of nutrient sources under different management systems on growth and yield of medicinal rice (Oryza sativa L.) cv Njavara were conducted in 2007 and 2008 at Cropping Systems Research Centre, Karamana, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The experiment was laid out in split plot design with four replications. The treatments consisted of four management systems viz., SRI (M1), ICM (M2), PoP (M3) of KAU and Farmers' practice (M4) in main plot. Nutrient sources viz., organic sources (S1), integrated nutrient sources (S2) and inorganic sources (S3) were the sub plot treatments. Farmers' practice (M4) recorded higher values of growth (height of plants, number of leaves hill-1, leaf area index (LAI) and number of tillers per unit area) and yield attributes (No of productive tillers m-2, grain and straw yield). Sources of nutrients did not influence growth characters in Njavara. Among the nutrient sources, higher number of grains panicle-1, filled grains panicle-1 and crop yield (grain and straw) were recorded under integrated nutrient source than organic and inorganic sources.
Key words :
Growth and yield, Management systems, Njavara rice, Nutrient sources, Oryza sativa.