The present investigation entitled “Optimizing Soil Moisture and PAR Utilization with Fertilizer Splitting for Rainfed Rice (Oryza sativa L.)” was carried out during the kharif seasons of 2017 and 2018 on a sandy loam soil of Bihar Agricultural College farm, Sabour to derive inputs for rationalizing the use of K and N fertilizers by splitting and real time manageme...

Nutrient and water management are important for diversifying and intensifying the rainfed rice based cropping systems. A fertigation experiment in split plot design was laid out at the farm of BAC, Sabour in 2014 with three levels of fertigation in main plots (nitrogen levels as fertigation @ 20, 40, and 60 kg ha-1 in rice and irrigation levels @ 200, 300 and 400 m...