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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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    Integrated Nutrient Management in Barley
    (CCSHAU, 2019) Sandeep Kumar; Sewhag, Meena
    The present study entitled, “Integrated nutrient management in barley” was conducted during the Rabi season of 2017-2018 at the Agronomy Research Farm of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar with the objective to study the effect of different nutrient management practices on growth, yield, quality and economics of barley. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design replicated thrice with ten different treatments viz. T1(Control) , T2 (Biomix) , T3 (Vermicompost @ 5 t ha-1), T4 ( Biomix + Vermicompost @ 5 t ha-1), T5 (50 % RDN + Vermicompost @ 5 t ha-1), T6 (75 % RDN + Vermicompost @ 5 t ha-1), T7 (50% RDN + Biomix + Vermicompost @ 5 t ha-1), T8 (75 % RDN + Biomix+ Vermicompost @ 5 t ha-1), T9 (RDN) and T10 (RDN + Biomix + Vermicompost @ 5 t ha-1). Among nutrient management practices treatments T10 recorded significantly higher growth parameters viz. [plant height (cm), LAI, number of tillers / m.r.l. and dry matter accumulation/plant (g/plant)], yield attributing characters [Number of grains per spike and spike length (cm) ] , grain, straw and biological yield (kg ha-1), protein content, N, P and K content in grain and straw (except K content in straw), gross returns, net returns and benefit: cost ratio of barley. Performance in terms of growth, yield, nutrient studies, quality and economics of barley in treatment T8 (75 % RDN + Biomix+ Vermicompost @ 5t ha-1) was at par with treatment T9 (RDN) and T10 (RDN + Biomix + Vermicompost @ 5t ha-1). Treatment T10 took highest number of days to flag leaf emergence, booting, anthesis and maturity as compared to other treatments. Treatment T1 being at par with treatment T2 recorded significantly higher value of malt content of barley than treatment T3 to T10. But various combinations of nitrogen fertilizer, biomix and vermicompost failed to produce any significant variation in days taken to emergence and tillering, plant population at 20 DAS, test weight, harvest and attraction index, quality parameters like hectoliter weight and boldness as well as thinness of barley grain, K content (%) in straw and available N, P and K status of soil after the harvest of barley.
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    Effect of nutrient management on yield and quality of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) cultivars
    (CCSHAU, 2019) Sandeep Kumar; Sharma, S.K.
    The present investigation entitled “Effect of nutrient management on yield and quality of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) cultivars” was conducted at Pulse Research Farm, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during rabi seasons of 2016-17 and 2017-18 with the objective to find out the impact of nutrient management on growth, yield, seed quality, nutrient uptake and economics of different lentil cultivars. The field experiment was laid out with 30 treatment combinations comprising of three varietal treatments (Sapna, Garima, HM 1) assigned to main plot and ten nutrient management practices allocated to sub-plot of split plot design by replicating thrice. Ten nutrient management practices consisting of combinations of variable rates of vermicompost and chemical fertilizers i.e. N1: control, N2 – RDF (20:40:0), N3: vermicompost (VC) @ 2 t ha-1, N4: 50% RDN+100% RDP+VC @ 1 t ha-1, N5: RDF + 0.5% ZnSO4 foliar application, N6: RDF + 0.5% FeSO4 foliar application, N7: RDF+0.5% ZnSO4+0.5% FeSO4 foliar application, N8: 50% RDN+100% RDP+VC @ 1 t ha-1+0.5% ZnSO4 foliar application, N9: 50% RDN+100% RDP+VC @ 1 t ha-1+0.5% FeSO4 foliar application, N10: 50% RDN+100% RDP+VC @ 1 t ha-1+0.5% ZnSO4+0.5% FeSO4 foliar application. The foliar spray of ZnSO4 and FeSO4 was carried out at pre-flowering and pod formation stage. The cultivar HM 1 produced the best results in terms of primary branches (3.45, 3.61 plant-1), secondary branches (12.22, 12.55 plant-1), total dry matter accumulation (9.75, 9.97 g plant-1), dry matter partitioning (4.84, 4.92 g plant-1) & partitioning coefficient (49.0, 48.8%) in pods, pods plant-1 (106, 108), seed yield (15.86, 16.12 q ha-1), attraction index (0.79, 0.94), harvest index (48.5, 48.2%), total uptake of N (85.7, 86.9 kg ha-1) & P (10.82, 11.39 kg ha-1), net return (16540, 22439 ` ha-1) and BC ratio (1.35, 1.47) over the cultivar Sapna and Garima during 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively. The extent of increase in seed yield in cultivar HM 1 was 22 & 24 percent over Garima and 23 & 25 percent over Sapna during 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively. Cultivar HM 1 recorded maximum net return (16540 and 22439 ` ha-1) and BC ratio (1.35 and 1.47) which was 203 & 128 percent and 20 & 21 percent higher than cultivar Garima during 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively. Although, the cultivar Sapna had higher leaf areas index (LAI), leaves biomass, 1000-seed weight, straw yield etc., which was statistically comparable with Garima in all these aspects. Among nutrient management practices, the application of 50% RDN+100% RDP+VC @ 1 t ha-1+0.5% ZnSO4+0.5% FeSO4 foliar spray (N10) recorded maximum growth and yield attributes, seed yield (16.25, 16.46 q ha-1), straw yield (19.6, 20.2 q ha-1), biological yield (35.8, 36.7 q ha-1), harvest index, content and uptake of N, P, K, Zn & Fe, protein content and economics of lentil during both the years, respectively. Although, this treatment was statistically identical with N9, N8 and N4 in most of these traits i.e. growth, yield attributes, yield, NPK content & uptake in seed and straw etc. This treatment (N10) increased the seed yield of lentil by 53 & 60 percent over control and 23 & 25 percent over RDF during 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively. The treatment N10 provided the maximum net return (16136 and 22472 ` ha-1) and BC ratio (1.32 and 1.45) during both the years, respectively. The foliar application of 0.5% of each of ZnSO4 and FeSO4 at pre-flowering and pod formation stage improved the Zn and Fe concentration in seed by 7.6 and 10.4% over control, respectively which may help to combat the micro-nutritional deficiency in human beings temporarily.
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    Evaluation of herbicides in black gram and their residual effect on succeeding mustard crop
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Sandeep Kumar; Bhattoo, M.S.
    Evaluation of herbicides in black gram and their residual effect on succeeding mustard crop was studied at Research farm of Department of Agronomy, CCSHAU, Hisar during kharif 2013 and Rabi 2013-14. Weed flora of the experimental field was dominated by Trianthema portulacastrum (83%), Cyperus rotundus (15%) and Convolvulus arvensis (2%) at 30 DAS. PRE application of imazethapyr + pendimethalin (RM) at 1000 g ha -1 provided excellent control (90%) of Trianthema portulacastrum up to 30 DAS. At 60 DAS, percent control with this treatment decreased to 73% which was at par with two hoeings employed at 20 & 40 DAS and pendimethalin at 1000 g ha -1 used as PRE. Post-emergence use of imazethapyr + imazamox (RM) at 60-80 g ha -1 exhibited 78-83 % control of weeds with slight crop suppression which mitigated within 10-15 days after spray but resulting adverse effect on crop growth and yield. Early post-emergence application of imazethapyr at 50, 60 and 70 g ha -1 although caused mild injury to black gram in terms of yellowing of leaves and stunted crop growth up to 30, but it diminished within two weeks. Maximum seed yield (903 kg ha -1 ) of black gram was obtained with two hoeings at 20 & 40 DAS which was at par with imazethapyr + pendimethalin (RM) at 1000 g ha -1 and pendimethalin at 1000 g ha -1 applied as PRE. All herbicides, irrespective of their dose and time of application, did not cause any injury to mustard planted as succeeding crop after harvest of black gram due to enhanced microbial degradation of herbicides due to high rainfall (477 mm) during crop growing season.