Yield, Quality and Nutrient Uptake of Soybean as Influenced by Water Soluble Fertilizer, Micro-nutrient and Plant GrowthRegulators

摘要

Soybean is one of the important oil seed grown in the temperate and tropical climate. The crop being pulse and oil seed plays three dimensional role as pulse, oilseed and legume. In Maharashtra, it was grown on 3.07 million ha area with production of4.30 million tonnes and productivity 1076 kg ha-1 (Anonymous, 2012). The soils of Maharashtra are deficient in zinc, low in nitrogen and medium in phosphorus and potassium (Patil, 2001). However, soil application of high analysis fertilizers are costly affairs to the farmers. To overcome this constrains, the present investigation was planned to fulfill the nutrient requirement of soybean through foliar application for harvesting potential yield and reduced the cost of fertilizer.