Effect of integrated nutrient management on productivity and quality of chickpea

Abstract

An experiment entitled Effect of integrated nutrient management on productivity newlineand quality of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) was conducted at Students Instructional newlineFarm, Department of Agronomy, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and newlineTechnology Kanpur (U.P.) in Rabi season for two consecutive years (2017-18 and 2018-19). newlineThe soil of the experimental field was sandy loam in texture, poor in fertility in respect of newlineavailable nitrogen and organic carbon and medium in respect of available phosphorus, newlineavailable potassium, available Zinc and available Boron. Soil was slightly alkaline in reaction newline(pH 7.70). The experiment was conducted in Split Plot Design (SPD) with three replications newlineand twenty one treatments combination. The main plot was consisting of three fertility levels newline(100%RDF (20:60:20NPK kg/ha), 50%RDF+Vermicompostat2.5t/ha and newline50%RDF+FYMat5t/ha) and sub plot consisting of seven micronutrients and biofertilizer newlinemanagement treatment (control, Biofertilizers (PSBat 6kg/ha)as basal, Micronutrients newline(Znat5kg/ha) as basal, Boron (Boat6kg/ha) as basal, PSB+Zn, PSB+Bo and PSB+Zn+Bo). newlineChick pea variety KWR-108 was grown with the recommended agronomic practices. The newlinetreatments effect was monitor in terms of crop growth, yield attributes and yield, quality of newlinegrain, nutrients content, uptake and availability of micronutrients in soil newline newline