Performance of pearlmillet (Pennisetum glaucum)-based cropping sequences at varying levels of fertility
2000
Bhagchand | Gautam, R.C. (Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India). Div. of Agronomy)
A field experiment was conducted during 1995-97 to study the total productivity of different pearlmillet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br. emend. Stuntz]-based cropping sequences at varying levels of fertility. Total productivity was computed in terms of pearlmillet-grain equivalent and gross returns. Results indicated that in areas where pearlmillet was grown as rainfed and winter (rabi) crops with limited irrigation facilities, a cropping sequence like pearlmillet-toria [Brassica rapa (L.) Thell.emend. Metzer var napus Lo; Syn. a. campestris L. ssp. oleifera (Metzger) sinsk. var toria]-wheat (Triticum aestivum L. emend. Flori & Paol.) may be followed. In this, pearl millet is to be grown with 40 kg N + 20 kg P2Qs/ha, toria on residual fertility and wheat with 80 kg N+ 50 kg P2Qs/hao Under limited irrigation facilities toria and wheat may be grown with 1 irrigation each in addition to presowing irrigations.
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