Effect of different levels of phosphorus and sulphur on growth and yield of cowpea (Vigna sinensis L.)
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dhutraj, S. V. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Abdar, Jyoti Popat | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-13T08:21:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-13T08:21:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-10-31 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The experiment entitled “Effect of different levels of phosphorus and sulphur on growth and yield of cowpea (Vigna sinensis L,)” was conducted at the Instructional Cum Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Latur during kharif season 2012-13. The experiment framed was intended to study the effect of different levels of phosphorus and sulphur on growth and yield of cowpea for high yield and better quality pods. The experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design (FRBD) with three levels each of phosphorus and sulphur consisting nine treatment combinations replicated thrice. The treatment comprising of levels of phosphorus viz. Pi: 40 kg P2O5 ha'1, P2: 50 kg P2O5 ha'1 and P3: 50 kg P2O5 ha'1 and three levels of sulphur viz. So: 0 kg S ha'1. Si: 20 kg S ha'1 and S3: 40 kg S ha'1. The doses of fertilizer nitrogen and potash each at 50 kg haf1 was applied as recommended dose. The nitrogen was applied through urea and potash was applied through MOP as basal dose whereas phosphorus and sulphur was applied as per treatments through Di-ammonium phosphate and gypsum respectively just before sowing of the crop. The sowing of crop was done by dibbling on 1st July 2012 at 60 x 30 cm spacing in the plots of 4.2 m x 3 m size. CONTE) The observation on emergence count and biometric observations like plant height, number of branches, number of functional leaves, leaf area were recorded on five randomly selected plants from each plot at various crop growth stages. The observations on reproductive growth parameters like number of days required to initiation of flowering, number of days to first picking, number of pickings and crop duration were recorded. The picking of green pods was done at horticultural maturity stage. The observations on yield contributing characters like number of clusters plant"1, number of pods cluster"1, yield plant"1 and yield plot"1 were recorded as each picking. The quality parameters like length of pod, number of seeds pod"1 and protein content were also estimated. The economics of the crop was also worked out after final harvest. The data was analysed statistically. The results of the present investigation indicated that the application of phosphorus @ 60 kg P2O5 ha"1 produced better growth and higher yield with high B:C ratio (3.6) of cowpea crop and it was found to be at par with the application of 50 kg P2O5 ha"1. Hence, it is desirable to apply phosphorus at 50 kg P2O5 ha"1 as per recommendation and there is no need to further increase or reduce the dose of phosphorus for cowpea. The most of growth, yield as well as economic characters were found higher with the application of 40 kg S ha"1 but they were at par with the application of 20 kg S ha"1. Therefore, the application of sulphur @ 20 kg ha"1 will be desirable. The results of the present study clearly showed the need of application of sulphur along with recommended dose of NPK for getting higher yield and more monetary returns of cowpea as a vegetable. Hence, in nutshell, it can be concluded that, for getting better growth and superior quality of cowpea pods with more economic returns, the crop should be fertilized with recommended dose of NPK each @ 50 kg ha"1 along with 20 kg S ha"1. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | T07069 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810052518 | |
| dc.keywords | Foliages, Mildew, Zoospore, Sporulation, Fungicides | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 99 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani | en_US |
| dc.sub | Vegetable Science | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Agriculture | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Effect of different levels of phosphorus and sulphur on growth and yield of cowpea (Vigna sinensis L.) | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |