Vol. 11, Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Arushi Yadav, RP Singh, Sarvesh Kumar, UD Awasthi, Munish Kumar and Durgesh Kumar

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted during the rabi season 2020-21 & 2021-22 at the Soil Conservation and Water Management Farm of Chandra Shekher Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur (U.P). In a factorial Randomized Block Design with three Replication nutrient management viz. 100% RDF, 75% RDF + Azotobacter, 50% RDF + Azotobacter + PSB consisting with three moisture conservation practices viz. dust mulch, hydrogel@ 2.5 kg/ha, hydrogel@5 kg/ha. The result indicated that growth contributing character of linseed. viz., number of plant population, plant height, total dry matter plant^-1, dry weight per plant. The hydrogel @5 kg/ha with 75% RDF + Azotobacter was found significantly effective in producing higher growth linseed. Among the different dose of fertilizer with bio- fertilizers 75% RDF + Azotobacter produced significantly higher plant population plant height dry weight per plant growth characters over the 100% RDF and found at par with 50% RDF + Azotobacter + PSB. Similarly application of moisture conservation practices hydrogel @5 kg/ha recorded maximum plant height followed by hydrogel@2.5 kg/ha plant height minimum recoded in dust mulch. The data reveal that the hydrogel combination of bio- fertilizers give best growth of linseed crop under rainfed condition.