Effect of vermicompost based zinc application on growth and yield of fodder maize (Pratap Makka Chari-6)

Abstract

India supports 17 percent of global human and 11 percent of the livestock population with only 2.3 percent of the worlds land area. Maize means literally “that which sustains life,” provides nutrients for human beings and animals and serves as a basic raw material as an ingredient to more than 3000 industrial products A field experiment was conducted at Plantica, IARD, Dehradun to study the effect of vermicompost based zinc application on growth, and yield of fodder maize. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with 3 replications. Total 17 treatments were done. The results show that exogenous application of vermicompost recorded maximum plant height and number of leaf per plant. All over the results shows most effective treatment for increasing quality characters and yield is vermicompost and zinc combination i.e., Vermicompost 30 T/ha + Zinc 30 kg/ha.