Vol. 11, Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Siyon Kumari, Dr. Victor Debbarma and Jeevansa Sai

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted during Kharif 2021 at Crop Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, SHUATS, Prayagraj, (U.P.). The treatments consist with foliar application of Zinc sulphate viz., 0.2%, 0.4% and 0.6% and seed inoculation of azospirillum 20g/kg, azotobacter 20g/kg, azospirillum+ azotobacter 20g/kg whose effect is observed in finger millet (GPU-28). The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with ten treatments replicated thrice. The result revealed that significant and higher plant height (80.78cm), maximum number of tillers/hill (7.76), higher plant dry weight (22.61g), maximum number of fingers/earhead (7.30), higher grain yield (2.83 t/ha) and higher straw yield (4.84 t/ha) was observed in the Treatment 9[(T₉-Azospirillum +Azotobactor (20g/kg) +Zinc sulphate (0.6%)]. Maximum gross returns (99283.00 INR/ha), net returns (68301.00 INR/ha) and B:C (2.20) was also recorded highest in the Treatment 9 [(Azospirillum + Azotobacter (20g/kg)+ZnSO4 (0.6%)] respectively.