Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Field experiment was conducted at University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore to study the significance of liquid bio fertilizer consortium and modes of its application on growth, yield and nutrient uptake by crop and soil fertility of transplanted finger millet.The treatments included 100, 85 and 70 per cent of recommended dose of fertilizers with liquid bio fertilizer consortium through different methods of application seed treatment, soil application and seedling root dip.Application of 100 per cent RDF + combined methods of application with viz., liquid bio fertilizer consortium (seed treatment, soil application and seedling root dip) numbered as the best technology by having obtained having higher plant height at harvest(102.9cm), tillers per plant (4.2), dry matter accumulation at harvest (52.12 g/plant), grain and straw yield (4080 and 7810 kg/ha, respectively), nutrient uptake (76.57, 36.40 and 76.53 kg nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium ha, respectively) with / slightly higher post-harvest available nutrients in soil (244, 86 and 210 kg N, P O and K O/ha, respectively) and higher soil microbial count at 2 5 2 50% flowering (52.3 , 38.6 cfu/g× 10 and 16.6 cfu/g× 10 bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes, respectively).However, this treatment par with 6 3 100% RDF + soil application for all the parameters and emerged as most feasible treatment from the perspective of higher profitability and practical feasibility.
Source: Indian Journal of Ecology
Language: English
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4388582488