Microbial Inoculants - Alternative Approach for Sustainable Crop Production

Authors

  • Pramod Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Himgiri Zee University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand (248 197), India
  • Sharad Pandey Professor, Department of Agriculture, Himgiri Zee University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand (248 197), India
  • Ashok Kumar Thakur Associate Director (R&E) and Head, RHRTS and KVK Kinnaur, Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, Himachal Pradesh (173 230), India
  • Sunil A. Nair Assistant Professor, Department of Plantation Crops and Spices, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Thrissur, Kerala (680 661), India
  • Gideon Synrem Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Himgiri Zee University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand (248 197), India

Keywords:

Microbial inoculants, plant growth promotion, Pseudomonas, PSB

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted to study the impact of urban waste compost (UWC) on rice (Oryza sativa L.)at College Farm, School of Agricultural Sciences, Mallareddy University, Maisammaguda, Hyderabad, Telangana state during Rabi, 2020–21. Two treatments (T1: RDF and T2: RDF+ UWC 28 t ha-1) have been imposed to study the yield and yield attributes of Chintu variety of rice crop. The results revealed that rice crop treated with RDF+UWC (T2) produced maximum number of tillers (265 m-2) and total dry matter (80.10 g plant-1), thus, higher grain yield (5250 kg ha-1) as compared to that of untreated plot (T1: RDF alone) (194 tillers m-2, 73.68 g plant-1, 4125 kg ha-1). Further, the same treatment recorded higher gross (Rs. 1,20,750 ha-1) and net returns (Rs. 75,406 ha-1) and B:C ratio (2.66) vis-a-vis untreated plot (Rs. 50,644 ha-1;2.14).

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Published

2023-07-04

Issue

Vol. 5 No. Dec, 4 (2021)

Section

Articles