Vol. 12, Issue 2 (2023)

Author(s):
Manjunath S Shatoji, Chittaranjan Sahoo, Surekha Shetty, Kishore Chandra Sahoo and Sukumar Tudu

Abstract:
Rice is the world’s second most important cereal crop next to corn because more than 80% of the world population depends on it. But there is decline in the production that may be due to the methodology followed for crop management. Here a field was laid out in Randomized Block Design with 10 treatments and 3 replications with paddy variety Lalat. Among the treatments, T₈ (75% (N&P) +100% K STD + 2% urea phosphate spray) has shown better result in the light of growth parameters and yield attributing characters. A high value for the total nutrient uptake of N, P and K were 58.5, 19.68 and 111.62 kg per ha respectively was found in T₈ treatment. Also, the grain and straw yield of 40.03 q and 53 q per ha respectively with B: C ratio of 1.15 was observed in treatment T₈.