Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Govind Kumar and Vikas Singh Sengar

Abstract:
The field experiment conducted on Effect of different doses of N and farm yard manure on growth, yield and yield contributing characters of baby corn (Zea mays L.) under Uttarakhand condition at the Students’ Research Farm Uttaranchal (PG) College of Bio-Medical Sciences & hospital, Dehradun during the Kharif season of 2016. The experiment was carried out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) having 7 treatments viz. T₁ (Control), T₂ (100 percent of recommended inorganic N), T₃ (5 tonnes of FYM ha^-1 + 100 kg inorganic N ha^-1), T₄ (10 tonnes of FYM ha^-1 + 75 kg inorganic N ha^-1) , T₅ (15 tonnes of FYM ha^-1 + 50 kg inorganic N ha^-1)T₆ (20 tonnes of FYM ha^-1 + 25 kg inorganic N ha^-1)and T₇ (25 tonnes of FYM ha^-1) with four replications. It revealed from present study that significantly higher time period for cob formation was taken by the control plot treatment T₁ and maximum numbers of cobs per plant, cob length, cob girth and cob weight were obtained with treatment T₃. Highest baby corn yield and fodder yield were obtained with treatment T₃, which was significantly better than all other treatments except, treatment T₂.