Author(s):

Ragini Kumari, Rajeev Padbhushan, Bipin Bihari, Anshuman Kohli and Sunil Kumar

Abstract: A field experiment was designed to study the residual effect of organic materials like farmyard manure and pressmud compost on green gram in alluvial soil, Bihar (India). The experiment consisted of two main plots treatment of farmyard manure and pressmud compost and five subplots treatment organic manure levels of 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MT ha^-1 along with full recommended dose of fertilizer of tomato crops followed by full recommended dose of fertilizer in green gram, replicated thrice in a split plot design in the same plots after harvest of tomato crop. Results showed that the seed yield of green gram crop increased significantly on the use of 10 MT ha^-1 of farmyard manure and pressmud compost and further increased non-significantly over the control. The percentage increase in seed yield was 40.3 and 47.6, respectively for farmyard manure and pressmud compost in the treatment 10 MT ha^-1 along with recommended dose of fertilizer over the control. Soil samples were analyzed for all the soil parameters and were found to be statistically similar across all treatments after the green gram crop. Thus it may be concluded that residual benefits could be possible in a subsequent legume crop even after heavy feeder crop like tomato crop is grown.

Pages: 1652-1655  |  908 Views  430 Downloads

Download (646KB)