Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
KJ Chauhan, HL Sakarvadia, DM Solanki and DM Patel

Abstract:
The pot experiment was carried out at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh to asses four levels of silicon (0, 100, 200 and 300 kg/ha^-1) and three different organic manures [No organic manures (control), FYM, vermicompost and city compost each 10 t/ha^-1] on wheat by adopting factorial CRD with three replications. The experimental results indicated that application of vermicompost 10 t/ha^-1 showed its superiority over rest of organic manures by significantly increasing growth parameter viz., plant height, number of effective tillers per plant; yield attributes viz., length of spike, number of spiklets per spike, number of grains per spike and quality parameter viz., protein content and 100 seed weight as well as grain yield. While, number of tillers per plant and straw yield were obtained significantly higher with application of 10 t FYM ha^-1. In case of silicon treatments, significantly higher growth parameter viz., plant height, number of tillers per plant and number of effective tillers per plant; yield attributes viz., length of spike, number of spiklets per spike, number of grains per spike; quality parameter viz., protein content and 100 seed weight as well as grain yield and straw yield were recorded with application of silicon 300 kg/ha^-1. The interaction effects between vermicompost 10 t/ha^-1 and silicon level 300 kg/ha^-1 exhibited their significant effect on length of spike (11.08 cm), grain yield (2.126 g plant^-1) whereas, 10 t FYM ha^-1 and 300 kg silicon ha^-1 exhibited their significant effect on straw yield (3.470 g plant^-1).