Productivity of Barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea) in relation to organic nutrition under rainfed conditions of Western Himalaya region

RASHMI YADAV; NARESH MALIK

doi:10.59797/ija.v55i2.4737

Authors

RASHMI YADAV
NARESH MALIK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59797/ija.v55i2.4737

Keywords:

Key Words Azotobacter, Echinochloa frumentacea, Himalayan Region, Organic farming, Organic matter

Abstract

To find out the efficacy of different organic materials as source of nutrients to barnyard millet ( Echinochloa frumentacea), an experiment was laid out with 12 treatments consisting of different organic manures in a ran- domized block design with 3 replications during kharif 2005-2008 at Ranichauri. The results indicated that vari- ous organic nutrition treatments have significantly lower productivity of barnyard millet than recommended dose of fertilizers (RDF i.e. 40-20-20 kg N-P-K/ha) in the initial 2 years (2005 and 2006). However, from third year on- wards, organic nutrition treatments of vermicompost (VC) + wild apricot-cake, WAC (50% N from each source) with and without Azotobacter produced statistically at par yield as that of RDF. Among the organic nutrition treat- ments tried, VC + WAC (50% N from each source) + Azotobacter on an average produced statistically similar

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