Effect of fertility levels and biofertilizers on the productivity and profitability of chickpea (Cicer arietinum)
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https://doi.org/10.59797/ija.v64i1.5246Keywords:
Biofertilizers, Chickpea, Economics, Fertility levels, YieldAbstract
A field experiment was conducted during winter (rabi) season of 201617 at Chandra Sekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh to evaluate the effect of fertility levels and biofertilizers on pro- ductivity and profitability of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). The treatments comprised of 4 fertility levels of [F (con- 1 trol), F (RDF 100%), F (75% RDF), F (50% RDF)] in the main-plots and 3 bio-fertilizer levels of [B (Rhizobium + 2 3 4 1 PSB), B (Rhizobium + PGPR) and B (Rhizobium + PSB + PGPR)] in sub-plots 3 times replicated split-plot de- 2 3 sign. The results showed that application of 100% RDF significantly enhanced the yield attributes, yield and net returns over the other treatments. Among the biofertilizer treatments application of Rhizobium + PSB + PGPR re- corded significantly higher yield attributes, yield, net returns and benefit: cost ratio compared to other treatments. The combined application of 100% RDF with Rhizobium + PSB + PGPR resulted in significantly higher seed yield, gross return, net return and B: C ratio of chickpea over other combinations.References
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