Use of fertilizer on major crops by farmers in Arang block of Raipur district

Abstract

Fertilizer consumption measure the quantity of plant nutrients used per unit of arable land. Fertilizer product covers nitrogenous, potash and phosphorus fertilizers. In Chhattisgarh state, area under net sown has 4800.66 thousand hectare. Major crops are paddy, wheat, jowar, pulses and oil seeds. Paddy is grown in 3756.80 thousand hectare which occupies about 78.25 percent of the net sown area of the state, whereas wheat grown in 177.78 thousand hectare and gram in 356.52 thousand hectare in the state. The average size of holding was 2.77 ha in Arang block. The sample farmers comprised pre-dominantly of other backward caste. Farmers were growing paddy crop in kharif season, gram and wheat in rabi season and paddy in summer season. Tiwara were sowing as an utera and some farmers grown tur in bunds. Paddy crop covered highest cropped area 61.39 percent under kharif season in Arang block. The cropping intensity was found in 162.88 percent.