Effect of nutrient management practices on growth, yield attributes and grain yield of finger millet and pearl millet

摘要

A field experiment was conducted at Agronomy farm, S.K.N. College of Agriculture, Jobner, Jaipur (Rajasthan) during kharif season of 2018 to study the effect of nutrient management practices on growth, yield attributes and grain yield of finger milletand pearl millet. The experiment consisting of 8 fertilization levels (control, N, P, Zn, N+P, N+Zn, P+Zn and N+P+Zn), to each finger millet and pearl millet were tested in randomized block design with 3 replications. Results revealed that the apparentvalues of growth parameters and yield attributing characters of both the crops viz., plant height, dry matter accumulation, chlorophyll content, number of effective tillers/plant, number of grains/ear and test weight increased with application of plant nutrients either singly or in combination. Significantly higher values were obtained with combined application of N+P+Zn over ' rest of the treatments and remained at par with that against N+P. The same treatment resulted in grain yield of 2006 kg/ha in finger millet and 2024 kg/ha in pearl millet, being 40lugher in finger millet and 68 higher in pearl millet over the control, respectively. However, the same treatment was found at par with that against N+P.