Abstract:
An experiment entitled “Study of foliar nutrient management in pigeonpea (
Cajanus cajan)” was conducted at Agriculture Research Station, Badnapur (Maharashtra), Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani during the kharif season July, 2018-19 with the main emphasis to study the effect of foliar nutrition on growth, yield and economics of pigeonpea.
The experimental field was laid out in a Randomized Block Design with ten treatments and three replications and the variety was BDN-716. Results revealed that application of RDF + (2% DAP and Multimicronutrient @ 2ml/litre foliar spray) at 50% flowering of pigeonpea produced maximum plant height (150 cm), branches (14.33), no of functional leaves (96.67), dry matter accumulation (143.33), no of pods (73.67), weight of pods /plant(52.67 g), seed yield/plant (38.67 kg/ha), 100 seed weight (14 g), as well as maximum seed yield (1650 kg/ha), straw yield (4100 kg/ha), biological yield (5750 kg/ha), harvest index(28.69), maximum net returns (57199 kg/ha) and B:C ratio(3.10) followed by RDF + 2% urea + Multimicronutrient spray @ 2ml/litre.
Elumle Priyanka, Darade GA, Kutawal MM and Patel CB. Study of foliar nutrient management on economics of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan). J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2019;8(4):2500-2501.