Influence of sowing times and fertilizer levels on vegetative growth in kasuri methi (Trigonella corniculata L.), under Akola (M. S.) conditions

Abstract

The present investigation entitled “Effect of sowing time and fertilizer levels on seed yield of kasuri methi (Trigonella corniculata L.)” was carried out in the year 2016 – 2017 and 2017-18, at Chilli and Vegetables Research Unit, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola. An experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design (FRBD) with twenty four treatment combinations. There were two factors of an experiment, first being sowing times with six levels and second was fertilizer doses with four levels and replicated as thrice to study the sowing times and fertilizer levels effect on vegetative growth and seed yield of kasuri methi. Results of the present investigation revealed that, the vegetative growth observations in terms of plant height, branches per plant and number of leaves were increased with early sowing D1 (10th October) and the higher fertilizer dose F4 (50:50:25 kg ha-1 NPK). As regards the interaction effect of sowing times and fertilizer levels, the treatment combination D1F4 viz., kasuri methi sown on 10th October and fertilized @ 50:50:25 kg ha-1 NPK produced significantly the maximum vegetative growth as well as seed yield per plot and per hectare, respectively.