Vol. 12, Issue 11 (2023)

Author(s):
LR Shinde, VP Suryavanshi, HM Shaikh, PM Chavan and AT Jadhav

Abstract:
During kharif season of 2021, a field experiment was carried out at the College of Agriculture, Latur (Maharashtra), at the Farm of Agronomy Section to investigate the “Effect of different spacing and nutrient management on yield and economics of soybean (Glycine max L.)”. The Factorial Randomized Block Design (FRBD) was used to set up the experiment with nine treatment combinations comprising of two factors i.e., different spacing and nutrient management. The factor-A consist of three spacings viz. S₁- 45 cm x 5 cm, S₂- 60 cm x 10 cm, S₃- 60 cm x 15 cm and factor-B consist of three nutrient management practices viz. N₁-Recommended Dose of Fertilizer (30:60:30:20 NPKS kg ha^-1), N₂-RDF + multimicronutrint grade-II @ 0.5% at 20 DAS and N₃- RDF+ multimicronutrint grade-II @ 0.5% at 20 DAS+ 00:54:34 @ 1% at 60 DAS. The result of the experiment revealed that spacing S₁- 45 cm × 5 cm recorded significantly highest seed yield, GMR, NMR and BC ratio over spacing S₂- 60 cm × 10 cm and S₃- 60 cm × 15 cm. The nutrient of RDF+ multimicronutrient grade-II @ 0.5% at 20 DAS+ 00:52:34 @ 1% at 60 DAS recorded highest seed yield GMR, NMR and BC ratio.