Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
Murali Bellamkonda, Shanti Madaraju, Shailaja Kola, Shashikala Tummanepally and Susheela Ravipati

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted at Agricultural Research Institute, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University Hyderabad during Kharif 2018 to study the response of forage pearl millet genotypes to nitrogen levels for producing optimum fodder yield and quality. The treatments comprised four genotypes (TSFB 15-4, TSFB 15-4, Giant bajra, and Moti bajra) and four nitrogen levels (0, 30, 60, and 90 kg/ha) laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Plant height, green fodder, dry matter, and crude protein yields of pearl millet genotypes were influenced significantly by different nitrogen levels. TSFB 15-8 outyielded other genotypes in green fodder (509.72 q/ha) and dry matter (116.56q/ha) yields. TSFB 15-4 produced the highest crude protein yield (10.00 q/ha) than the other three genotypes. All the genotypes responded significantly up to 60 kg N/ha in obtaining plant height, green fodder, dry matter, crude protein %, and crude protein yield (200.2 cm, 478.41 q/ha, 110.83 q/ha, 8.9%, and 10.30 q/ha, respectively). The interaction effect of genotypes and nitrogen levels was found nonsignificant.