Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
Shivani Shakhtawat, Ashish Dwivedi, Arvind Kumar, Urwashi Manekar, Vishal Sarsariya, Rajeev Ranjan and Shahnawaz Mansuri

Abstract:
The negligence to the conservation and use of organic sources for nutrients has not only exhausted soil nutrient reserves, but also resulted in an imbalance among the available nutrients, leading to soil problems. Keeping this on mind a field experiment was conducted during summer season 2021-22. Result revealed that significantly maximum growth parameters, yield attributes, yields, soil available nutrients, and microbial populations were recorded under variety of PDM-131, except actinomycetes which was least population as against variety Erge-1. Moreover, 50% FYM+ 50% Vermicompost were recorded maximum nitrogen (242.50 kg ha^-1), Phosphorus (16.00 kg ha^-1) and Potassium (340.00 kg ha^-1) in soil at the harvest. It had also recorded the higher microbial population viz., Rhizobium (9.7 x10 ⁷ cfu), Azotobacter (13.1 x10 ⁷ cfu) and Fungai (9.8 x10 ⁷ cfu) in the soil. However, the highest population of Actinomycetes was recorded in control. Similar similar trends were also showed in other parameters like performance and economics. Hence, the above treatment can be suggested as a combination for getting higher benefit as well as soil health with greater quantity on sustainable basis.