Effect of bio enriched FYM on growth, yield and economics of finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn) under dryland condition
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Crop suffers from the slow release of nutrients from organic manures at initial stages, which may cause a significant reduction in crop yield and farm income. This can be overcome by enrichment of organic manures with beneficial microbial culture and a judicious combination of inorganic fertilizers with such enriched organic manures. Finger millet was grown at AICRP for dryland Agriculture field during Kharif -2019 to study the effect of bio-enriched FYM viz., nitrogen fixers, phosphorus solubilizers, potassium solubilizers, PGPR and microbial consortia with 60 and 80 per cent RDF on growth, yield and economics of finger millet. Application of bio enriched FYM with microbial consortia + 80 per cent RDF (T10) recorded significantly higher plant height (86.38, 111.52 and 115.33 cm), number of tillers per plant (4.42, 5.20 and 5.42) and dry weight per plant (5.50, 15.05 and 27.27 g) at 60, 90 DAS and at harvest, respectively. Whereas, higher grain yield (2999 kg ha-1) and straw yield (4274 kg ha-1) were recorded in T10 treatment Which received 80 per cent RDF with microbial consortia and sème trématent recorded additional return of rupees 12683 per hectare over recommended use of fertilizers. The overall result showed that the bio enrichment of FYM with microbial consortia tended to reduce the application rate of chemical fertilizer and thus microbial consortia along with 80 per cent RDF could be recommended for finger millet.
Author: I SHAFNAS
Institution: University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore
Language: English
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4399263522