Vol. 6, Issue 5 (2018)
Zinc fertilization: Practice to improve zinc use efficiency and yield of wheat grown on calcareous soil
Author(s): Mohini Patle, AG Durgude, AD Kadlag and MR Chauhan
Abstract: The present investigation was conducted at PGI, Research Farm. Department of Soil Science and Agril. Chemistry, M.P.K.V., Rahuri, during the Rabi 2016-17.
The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design with three replication and nine treatments. The treatment comprised of T1 : Absolute control, T2 : General recommended dose of fertilizer 120:60:40 kg ha-1 N : P2O5:K2O + 10 t FYM ha-1, T3 : GRDF with soil application of ZnSO4 @ 20kgha-1, T4 : GRDF with 120 kg N through zinc coated urea + 60:40 P2O5:K2O kg ha-1 + 10 t ha-1 FYM, T5 : GRDF with soil application of cow dung slurry with ZnSO4, T6 : GRDF with soil application of 100 kg FYM + ZnSO4 @20kgha-1, T7 : GRDF with seed coating treatment of ZnSO4 @ 20kgha-1, T8 : GRDF with seed coating treatment of chelated Zn EDTA and T9: GRDF with seed treatment of zinc solubilizing bacteria + soil application of zinc sulphate @ 20kgha-1.
The grain and straw yield of wheat was significantly increased (48.39 qha-1 and 53.52 qha-1 respectively) in treatment of GRDF with soil application of 100 kg FYM + ZnSO4 @ 20kgha-1 incubated for one week. Which was at par with treatment of application of ZnSO4 @ 20kgha-1 with cow dung slurry @500 Lha-1 at 30 DAS through irrigation along with GRDF i.e. 47.89 qha-1 grain yield and 51.06 qha-1 straw yield respectively. In conclusion, it was observed that zinc fertilization in zinc deficient calcareous soils improved the zinc use efficienc and yield of wheat.
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Mohini Patle, AG Durgude, AD Kadlag, MR Chauhan. Zinc fertilization: Practice to improve zinc use efficiency and yield of wheat grown on calcareous soil. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(5):2785-2789.
