Effects of integrated nutrient management on growth and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Abstract

An experiment was conducted on Research Farm of AKS University, Satna to evaluate the effects of INM on wheat crop during rabi season of 2023-2024. The total of 11 treatments were evaluated with different doses of Vermicompost (@ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ton/ha) and Nitrogen (@ 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120, 135, 150 kg/ha) for several growth and yield contributing characters. The result indicates that the treatment T8 (Vermicompost @ 7 ton/ha + N @ 105 kg/ha) significantly increased plant yield attributing parameters, withnumber of spike/plant (48.77), number of grains/spike (56.89), straw yield (70.79), grain yield (4826.22 kg/plot) and grain yield (5.32 t/ha). These treatments may have increased dry matter production and effective partitioning to the economic sink.