Vol. 10, Issue 11 (2021)

Author(s):
A Aliveni, B Venkateswarlu, M Sree Rekha, PRK Prasad and K Jayalalitha

Abstract:
A Field experiment was conducted at Agricultural college farm, Bapatla during the kharif and rabi seasons of 2018-19 and 2019-20 to study the residual effect of nutrient management approaches in finger millet on growth and yield of succeeding horsegram crop under finger millet - horsegram system. The experimental design was split plot with three replications. The main-plot factor comprised of three crop geometries with different age of seedlings (30x10 cm with 30 days old seedlings, 30x30 cm with 15 days old seedlings and 45x45 cm with 15 days old seedlings) and seven nutrient management practices (S₀: absolute control, S₁: FYM @ 10 tonnes ha^-1 + application of dravajeevamrutham, S₂: FYM @ 10 tonnes ha^-1 + application of dravajeevamrutham along with wooden log treatment, S₃: FYM @ 10 tonnes ha^-1 + 100% RDF, S₄: FYM @ 10 tonnes ha^-1 + 100% RDF along with wooden log treatment, S₅: FYM @ 10 tonnes ha^-1 + 125% RDF, S₆: FYM @ 10 tonnes ha^-1 + 125% RDF along with wooden log treatment) in subplots were given to kharif finger millet. During succeeding rabi season on the same field horsegram was grown to study the residual impact. The application of FYM @ 10 tonnes ha^-1 + 125% RDF along with or without wooden log treatment to finger millet reported the significant residual effect on growth, seed and haulm yields of succeeding horsegram crop.