Nutrient management in wheat under middle Gujarat condition

Abstract

The field experiment was conducted at Dept. of Soil Science and Agril. Chemistry, B. A. College of agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand during 2012-13 to 2014-15 to assess the effects of nutrient management on wheat (GW-496) in rabi season. The pooled result revealed that treatment T6 recorded significantly the highest plant height (70.6 cm), spikelet length (7.9 cm) and test weight (5.16 g) as well as grain (4560 kg ha-1) and straw yield (5926 kg ha-1) over rest of the treatments. Nutrient concentration in grain and straw were found non-significant due to different treatments except phosphorus content in grains. Significantly the highest uptake in kg ha-1 of N (88.96), P (11.76) and S (8.32) were recorded under treatment T6. Significantly the highest uptake in g ha-1 of Fe (273.19), Mn (125.44), Zn (139.05) and Cu (29.47) were found in treatment T6 as compared to other treatments.