Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
Varietal performance on growth and yield of organically grown finger millet (Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn) to varying levels of FYM under Konkan condition
Author(s): PB Mundphane, CS Kadam, KD Varnekar, SD Raut and UV Mahadkar
Abstract: The present investigation entitled “Varietal performance of organically grown finger millet (Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn) to varying levels of FYM under Konkan condition.†was conducted at Agronomy Farm, College of Agriculture, Dapoli, Dist. Ratnagiri (M.S.) during Kharif season of 2017. The experiment was laid out in Factorial randomized block design with three replications. The treatments included four Varieties viz., DPL-1 (V1), DPL- 2 (V2), DPL white (V3) and Sindhudurga local (V4) in main plot and levels of farm yard manure viz., 100% RDF (Control) (M0), 50% RDN through FYM (M1), 75% RDN through FYM (M2), 100% RDN through FYM (M3), 125% RDN through FYM (M4) and 150% RDN through FYM (M5) in sub plots. Thus, there were 24 treatment combinations. Soil of the experimental field was uniform, level and well drain. It was sandy clay loam in texture, moderately acidic in reaction (pH 5.49) and very high in organic carbon (13.60 g kg-1). It was low in nitrogen (242.32 kg ha-1), low in available phosphorus (10.92 kg ha-1) and moderately high in available potassium (231.60 kg ha-1). During the course of investigation, growth observations of finger millet were recorded periodically at an interval of 30 days while yield contributing characters and yields were recorded at harvest to evaluate the treatment effects. The uptake of major nutrients by the finger millet crop was analyzed and interpreted. The experimental results revealed that variety DPL-2 (V2) produced higher growth attributes viz., height of plant, number of functional leaves hill-1, number of tillers hill-1, accumulation of dry matter-1, which were significantly higher as compared to other varieties of finger millet at all the stages of crop growth. Yield attributing characters viz., number of earhead hill-1, number of fingers earhead-1, weight of earhead, length of fingers hill-1, straw weight hill-1 and 1000 grain weight were significantly higher due to variety DPL-2 (V2) than rest of the treatments. Grain and straw yield ha-1, uptake of nutrients viz., N, P and K kg ha-1 were also significantly higher due to variety DPL-2 followed by variety Sindhudurga local, DPL-1 and DPL white in that descending order. The increase in grain yield recorded by variety DPL-2 over Sindhudurga local, DPL-1 and DPL white was to the tune of 6.58 per cent, 9.19 per cent and 13.73 per cent, respectively.
Application of 100% RDF through chemical fertilizers (M0) recorded significantly higher growth as well as yield attributes resulting into significantly more grain and straw yield over all other treatments. Significantly higher value of N, P, K uptake was recorded due to the application of 100% RDF (M0). The magnitude of increase in grain yield recorded by the treatment M0 over M5, M4, M3, M2, and M1 was to the tune of 14.63 per cent, 23.47 per cent, 34.28 per cent, 38.67 per cent and 51.55 per cent respectively.
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PB Mundphane, CS Kadam, KD Varnekar, SD Raut, UV Mahadkar. Varietal performance on growth and yield of organically grown finger millet (Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn) to varying levels of FYM under Konkan condition. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):2008-2012.
