EFFECT OF NATURAL FARMING PRACTICES ON QUALITY SEED PRODUCTION IN PEA
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2023-11-04
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UHF Nauni
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The present investigation titled, “Effect of Natural Farming Practices on Quality Seed Production in Pea” was carried out at experimental farm of Department of Seed Science and Technology, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP)-173 230 during 2022 to 2023. Field experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with 7 treatments replicated thrice and the laboratory studies were conducted in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with four replications. All the treatments except for control-RDF (T7) comprised of seed treatment with Beejamrit, drenching and spraying with Jeevamrit (10 %) at 1 and 2 weeks interval [T1 & T2: drenching with Jeevamrit at 1 and 2 weeks interval, respectively; T3 & T4: spraying with Jeevamrit at 1 and 2 weeks interval, respectively; T5 &T6: drenching and spraying with Jeevamrit alternatively at 1 and 2 weeks interval, respectively] and foliar application of agniastra, sonthastra and sour butter milk at 7 days interval. Ghanjivamrit, achhadan and whapasa were practiced in all treatments except control-RDF (T7). Although, maximum values for plant height (86.90 cm), pod length (9.18 cm), number of pods per plant (21.07), number of seeds per pod (7.83), seed yield per plot (0.182 kg), seed yield per hectare (16.88 q), 100 seed weight (17.12 g), germination percentage (96.75 %), seedling length (23.28 cm), seedling dry weight (34.63 mg), seedling vigour index-I (2251.88), seedling vigour index-II (3349.95) and minimum value for EC (16.05 μS/cm), minimum days to 50 % flowering (86.33), minimum days to seed harvesting (147.00) were recorded in treatment T1 [Seed treatment with Beejamrit + drenching with Jeevamrit (10 %) at 1 week interval + foliar application of agniastra, sonthastra and sour butter milk at 7 days interval] but found to be statistically at par with treatments T5 and T7. Highest viable microbial count i.e. bacteria (11.64 × 108 cfu/g soil), fungi (19.33 × 102 cfu/g soil) and actinomycetes (23.33 × 104 cfu/g soil) was recorded in T1 which was statistically at par with treatment T5. However, maximum values for available N (352.87 kg/ha), P (82.53 kg/ha) and K (302.03 kg/ha) were observed in T7 (RDF- @ Urea 55 kg /ha + SSP 375 kg/ha + MOP 100 kg/ha + FYM @ 200 q/ha) which were statistically similar to T1 and T5. The treatment T5 also exhibited highest B: C ratio (1.57: 1) besides enhancing all other quality attributes. Therefore, treatment T5 [Seed treatment with Beejamrit + drenching and spraying with Jeevamrit (10 %) alternatively at 1 week interval + foliar application of agniastra, sonthastra and sour butter milk at 7 days interval] can be suggested for commercial seed production of pea to obtain higher B:C ratio as an intercrop in apple after multi location testing
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EFFECT OF NATURAL FARMING PRACTICES ON QUALITY SEED PRODUCTION IN PEA