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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Agronomy × Author: Akshit × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2019 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Effect of potassium and boron fertilization on forage and seed yield of berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)
    (CCSHAU, 2019) Akshit; Sheoran, R.S.
    The field experiment entitled “Effect of potassium and boron fertilization on forage and seed yield of berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)” was conducted during the rabi season of 2017- 18 at the Forage Research Farm of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar with the objective to study the effect of potassium and boron fertilization on forage yield, seed production, quality and economics of different treatments for berseem. Treatment combinations comprised of four potassium levels i.e. 0, 20, 40 and 60 kg K2O ha-1 and four levels of boron i.e. 0, 2, 4 kg B ha-1 and 0.2% spray at initiation and 50% flowering. The experiment was laid out in split plot design and replicated thrice. The soil of the experimental field was low in available nitrogen (141.7 kg ha-1), medium in available phosphorus (16.2 kg ha-1), potassium (238.5 kg ha-1), in boron (0.85 ppm) and slightly alkaline in reaction having pH 7.8. The results indicated that the maximum total green fodder (444.2 q ha-1) and dry matter yield (55.32 q ha-1) was obtained when berseem was fertilized with 40 kg K2O ha-1. Whereas, the seed yield (3.43 q ha-1), straw yield and biological yield were significantly higher at 60 kg K2O ha-1 over control but was statistically at par with 40 kg K2O ha-1. Total Crude protein yield was found highest with 60 kg K2O ha-1 (10.29 q ha-1) and digestible dry matter at 40 kg K2O ha-1 (37.19 q ha-1). N, P, K and B content and their uptake was significantly increased with graded doses of potassium from 0- 60 kg K2O ha-1. Highest B:C was worked out with 40 kg K2O ha-1. Incremental dose of applied boron resulted in a significant improvement in forage yield upto 2 kg B ha-1. Whereas, biological, seed and straw yield were increased significantly with foliar application of 0.2% B at initiation and 50% flowering than other levels. Maximum content and uptake of N, P, K, and B was recorded with 4 kg B ha-1 level. Maximum net returns were fetched with foliar application of 0.2% B at initiation and 50% flowering with highest B: C of 1.68.