Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted during the
Rabi season of 2017-18 on fodder maize crop (var. SHIATS-Makka 2) at the Crop Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, Naini Agricultural Institute, SHUATS, Allahabad (U.P.). The soil of the experimental field was sandy loam with low organic carbon (0.45%) and a soil pH of 7.6. The experiment comprised of three planting geometry
viz 40 ×10 cm, 50× 10 cm, 60×10 cm and 2 nitrogen levels i.e. 90 kg N ha
-1 and 120 kg N ha
-1 respectively, with 18 treatments replicated thrice and laid out in Randomized Block Design. The experiment was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield of fodder maize (
Zea mays L.). The result revealed that treatment T
17 [120 kg N ha
-1 + (50% N through vermicompost + 50%N through urea) + Seed inoculated with
Azotobacter + 50x10cm] recorded higher plant height (93.19 cm), dry weight (67.72 g) and green fodder yield (44.56 t ha
-1).
Choudary Pradeep Kumar, Rajesh Singh, Punnam Chhetri and RK Singh. Effect of integrated nitrogen management and spacing on growth and yield of fodder maize (Zea mays L.) var. shiats - makka-2. J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2018;7(5):1855-1856.