Vol. 11, Issue 5 (2022)

Author(s):
Ravi Kumar Dwivedi, Umesha C and Lalit Kumar Sanodiya

Abstract:
The field experiment was conducted during Zaid season (2021) at Crop Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, (Uttar Pradesh). I worked with objective to work out the economics of different treatment combination. The soil of experimental plot was sandy loam in texture, nearly natural in soil reaction (pH 7.2), low in organic carbon (0.48%), available N (171.48 kg/ha), available P (13.6 kg/ha) and available K (215.4 kg/ha). The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with 9 treatment sand replicated thrice. The results reported that the application of Vermicompost 1.5t/ha + RDF 100%(T₁) recorded maximum plant dry weight at 45 DAS (7.83 g/plant) and 60 DAS (16.14 g/plant), crop growth rate at 30-45 DAS (3.01 g/m²/day) and 45-60 DAS (4.11 g/m²/day), relative growth rate at 30-45 DAS (0.1005 g/g/day) and 45-60 DAS (0.0482 g/g/day), maximum Gross returns (161,040 INR/ha), net returns (113,394 INR/ha) and B:C ratio (2.38).