To study the effect of pelleting of organic and inorganic nutrients on Morphophysiological traits and yield of rice under SRI

Abstract

The experiment was conducted during the kharif season of 2015 at Instructional cum Research Farm, IGKV Raipur, to investigate the alternate strategies of innovative pelleting of nutrients to enhance nutrient use efficiency and yield of rice under SRI. The soil was Inceptisol, neutral in pH, low in available N medium in available P and high in available K. The 13 treatments consisted of different conventional and innovative pelleting of nutrients was laid out in randomized block design with three replications. The rice variety MTU-1010 was tested under at different conventional and innovative pelleting of nutrients. The results revealed that The treatment pelleted 2.0 t PM + pelleted 80:50:30 N:P2O5:K2O kg ha-1 registered higher yield attributing traits viz. effective tillers (hill-1), panicle weight (g), panicle length (cm), and test weight (g), grain yield (q ha-1) and stover yield (q ha-1) as compared to other treatments.