Impact of Foliar Application of Fertilizers on Growth and Seed Yield of Vigna mungo L.

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  • Sagarika Parida , Ananya Mishra , Aliva Das

Abstract

Fertilizer application is an important source to increase the production in agricultural practices.
Among various cultural practices, foliar nutrition is one of the important methods as the spray of
micronutrients and fertilizers facilitate easy and quick utilization of nutrients. In this study the
plant growth attributes like height, leaf area, number of root nodules, dry weight of nodules per
plant, number of pods per plant and number of grains per plant, and seed yield of black gram was
observed by foliar spraying of 1% of DAP, 1% of CaNO3, 2% of KCl and 2% of ZnSO3 in the
improved variety PU 35. Soil analysis was done prior to sowing to determine the elemental
composition and soil fertility status of soil and thereby any deficiencies. All the growth attributes
was found to be maximum in plants grown in the plot with recommended dose of fertilizer in
soil along with foliar application of 1% CaNO3 treated crops than in conventional method of
cultivation.Highest nodulation was recorded in plants from the plot treated with both RDF and
foliar application of 1% CaNO3 followed by RDF with 2% of Di-ammonium phosphate (DAP),
RDF with foliar application of 2% ZnSO3 and RDF with Potassium chloride (2%) having 33.7,
32.6, 31.8 respectively.It was observed that foliar application of micronutrients resulted in
maximum yield of 4.6 to 5.5 q/ha in improved variety PU 35 as well as the existing variety
Khuntibiri. But improved variety PU 35 showed higher yield over existing variety

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2020-12-01

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Sagarika Parida , Ananya Mishra , Aliva Das. (2020). Impact of Foliar Application of Fertilizers on Growth and Seed Yield of Vigna mungo L. International Journal of Modern Agriculture, 9(4), 296 - 307. Retrieved from http://modern-journals.com/index.php/ijma/article/view/215

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