T. B. NAYAK, S. J. VAGHELA*, J. K. MALAV AND D. M. PATEL
Chimanbhai Patel College of Agriculture, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University,
Sardarkrushinagar- 385 506 (Gujarat), India
Centre for Millets Research, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University,
Deesa-385 535 (Gujarat), India
*(e-mail : sjagron@sdau.edu.in)
(Received : 12 June 2023; Accepted : 30 June 2023)

SUMMARY

A field experiment on nitrogen management in forage sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] was carried out at Agronomy Instructional Farm, Chimanbhai Patel College of Agriculture, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar during kharif season of 2021 in loamy sand. Nine treatment combinations comprising three levels of nitrogen (75, 100 and 125%) and three splits (one split at 30 DAS, two splits at 30 and 45 DAS and three splits at 30, 45 and 60 DAS) were laid out in RBD (factorial concept) with four replications. Results revealed that plant height, length of leaves, green and dry forage yield, number of leaves/plant, width of leaves, leaf: stem ratio and crude protein content were significantly the highest with the application of N @ 125%. Whereas, results was obtained for plant height, number of leaves/plant, length of leaves, green and dry forage yield and crude protein content were significantly higher with the application of nitrogen in three splits at 30, 45 and 60 DAS. Nitrogen and phosphorus content and uptake as well as available nitrogen content in soil after harvest of the sorghum were significantly higher with application of 125% N and three splits of nitrogen at 30, 45 and 60 DAS.

Key words: Nitrogen levels, N split, Forage sorghum, green fodder yield, economics

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SHWETA, KAVITA*, MEENA SEHWAG, RENU MUNJAL, NEELAM AND MEHAK NAGORA
Department of Agronomy
CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India
*(e-mail : kavita.yadav@hau.ac.in)
(Received : 10 May 2023; Accepted : 28 June 2023)

SUMMARY

Wheat is the second most dominant food grain crop in India and third most important cereal fodder crop. It also has a high scope for sustainable improvement in fodder production with
management of deficit irrigation in semi-arid areas by the use of polymers which may be natural or synthetic depending on the source. Hydrogels are also known as super absorbent polymers and are used in agriculture for more than forty years. Gond katira is a natural one and is also known as herbal hydrogel or “Tragacanth katira”. It is obtained from the gum of the shrubs of Astragalus gummifer or Astragalum microcephalus type plants. It contains a 60-70 percent water swellable fraction named bassorin or tragacanth acid along with tragacanthin which is a water soluble fraction. Synthetic hydrogels are quite popular in the market and have more absorbing capacity compared to natural hydrogels and can work for about five years in the soil. Thus, hydrogel application in areas with deficit irrigation shows a wide scope for grain and straw yield improvement. The present study was planned to study the performance of polymers under various irrigation regimes in improving the growth of fodder wheat.

Key words: Wheat, straw yield, Gond katira, hydrogel, SPAD and irrigation

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SUPRIYA THAKUR*, S. K. JHA, RAJESHWARI DHURWE, JAYESH SHESH, HARENDRA KUMAR AND RITESH SINGH
Department of Agronomy,
College of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur-492 012 (Chhattisgarh), India
*(e-mail : priyathakur3006@gmail.com)
(Received : 10 June 2023; Accepted 29 June 2023)

SUMMARY

This paper documents the effects of crop geometry and nitrogen levels on baby corn maize crop. A field experiment was carried out during winter (rabi) season of 2019 at Instructional cum
Research Farm, IGKV, Raipur, in split plot design with three replications. It was conducted to study the effect of crop geometry and nitrogen levels on growth, yield attributes of baby corn G5414. The treatments involve four crop geometries and three nitrogen levels. Crop geometries are 30 x 20cm, 40 x 20cm, 50 x 20 cm, 60 x 20cm and nitrogen levels are 75,100,125 kg N/ha. Result illustrated that number of leaves, leaf area index, stem girth , crop growth rate , number of young cobs plant^-1 ,length of cob with and with out husk ,diameter of cob with and with out husk N content in cob and fodder was found significantly higher in planting geometry of 60 x 20 cm and all these characters were also found superior under treatments receiving 125 kg N/ha. Plant height and fodder yield was found significantly higher in 30 x 20cm. cob yield and harvest index was observed in planting geometry of 50 x 20 cm and at the application of 125 kg N/ha. Planting geometry of 50 x 20 cm (1,00,000 plants/ha) with 125 kg N/ha gives highest gross returns (Rs. 198576/ha), net returns (Rs. 154337/ha) and B:C ratio (2.5). Further, the spacing of 50 x 20cm application of nitrogen i.e 125 N kg ha^-1 was found to be economical as it gave highest monetary benefits and B:C ratio.

Key words: Baby corn, crop geometry, nitrogen levels and fodder yield

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AKHILA C. THAMPI* AND USHA C. THOMAS
Department of Agronomy, Kerala Agricultural University
AICRP on Forage Crops & Utilization, College of Agriculture, Vellayani,
Thiruvananthapuram – 695 522 (Kerala), India
*(e-mail: akhilacthampi@kvasu.ac.in)
(Received : 8 March 2023; Accepted : 29 June 2023)

SUMMARY

An experiment was conducted in Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram during the period from
May 2016 to April 2017 to assess the influence of six magnesium sulphate levels (0 (M₁), 40 (M₂), 60 (M₃), 80 (M₄), 100 (M₅) and 120 (M₆) kg MgSO₄ ha^-1) and two growing conditions (open (S₁) and coconut garden (S₂) ) on the yield and quality of Bajra Napier hybrid. The growth and yield of Bajra Napier hybrid was significantly higher in open condition compared to coconut garden. However, quality parameters viz. crude protein and crude fibre content were improved when Bajra Napier hybrid was grown under coconut garden. Higher yield of Bajra Napier hybrid was obtained in the open condition with a Mg dose of 80 kg MgSO₄ ha^-1 in addition to the POP recommendations of KAU (25 t ha^-1 FYM and 200:50:50 kg ha^-1 NPK). In coconut garden, the productivity can be enhanced by applying 100 kg MgSO₄ ha^-1 along with the POP recommendations of KAU. Magnesium fertilization improved the quality parameters in herbage. Highest crude protein content (9.33 %) was recorded in M₅ and it was on par with M₄ and M₆. Crude fibre content (35.46 %) was the lowest in M₆ and it was on par with M₄ and M₅.

Key words: BN hybrid, Magnesium sulphate, coconut garden, fodder yield, crude fibre, crude protein

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DEEPAK KUMAR, ANKIT KUMAR, MAHA SINGH JAGLAN AND SURENDER SINGH YADAV
Department of Entomology, CCS HAU-Hisar (Haryana), India
Coordinator, KVK, Karnal-132001
(e-mail: Ankitzood522@gmail.com)
(Received : 15 June 2023; Accepted : 29 June 2023)

SUMMARY

Population dynamics of Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) were studied at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Regional Research Station, Uchani, Karnal on maize hybrid HQPM 1. The meteorological parameters observed during the investigation have been correlated with population of the pest. The infestation by S. frugiperda during 2020 varied from 9.3 to 79.1 per cent from 28^th to 40^th SMW (2^nd week of July to 1^st week of October). In the present investigations, larval population had a significant positive correlation with evening relative humidity (r = 0.652) and significant negative correlation with sun shine hours (r = -0.634). Average plant infestation had a non-significant positive correlation with morning relative humidity (r = 0.48).

Key words: Population, Spodoptera frugiperda, weather parameters, correlation, maize

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BAJRANG LAL SHARMA*, NARESH KUMAR, ANKIT KUMAR, SATPAL, P. KUMARI, N. KHAROR, DALIP KUMAR, G. SHYAM PRASAD AND NEELAM KUMARI MANDAL
Forage Section, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding,
Department of Agro meteorology, 3Department of Entomology
CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India
ICAR- Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad (Telangana), India
Associate Professor (Botany), Government (PG) College, Panchkula (Haryana), India
*(e-mail : bl_antela@rediffmail.com)
(Received : 2 June 2023; Accepted : 28 June 2023)

SUMMARY

One hundred and five sorghum genotypes were evaluated against shoot fly, Atherigona soccata Rondani and stem borer, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) during Kharif, 2020. Screening was
done on the basis of per cent dead heart at 28 and 45 days after emergence against shoot fly and stem borer respectively. The results revealed that some genotypes were highly resistant against shoot fly and stem bore excluding the resistant checks. Genotypes, SPV 2768, SPV 2669, SPV 2587, SPV 2593, SPV 2584, SPV 2704, CSV 21F, SPV 2809, SPV 2800, SPV 2808, SPV 2790, SPV 2604 and SPV 2529 have shown multiple resistance against shoot fly and stem borer.

Key words: Atherigona soccata, chilo partelus, dead heart, screening

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D. S. PHOGAT, MINAKSHI JATTAN, YOGESH JINDAL, S. K. PAHUJA, SATYAWAN ARYA, RAVISH PANCHTA, PUMMY KUMARI, NAVEEN KUMAR*, NEERAJ KHAROR, DALVINDER PAL SINGH, SATPAL AND BAJRANG LAL SHARMA
Forage Section, Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding,
CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India
*(e-mail: nknaveenroyal@gmail.com)
(Received : 11 May 2023; Accepted : 28 June 2023)

SUMMARY

The new single-cut oat variety, HFO 806, developed by CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar was released and notified for cultivation under timely sown, normal fertility
and irrigated conditions in the rabi season of South (Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh) and Hill ( Himachal Pradesh, UT of Jammu and Kashmir) zone of the country. It was developed through pedigree method of breeding. The variety HFO 806 gave 376.4 q/ha green fodder yield which was 22.5% more than the national check Kent (307.3 q/ha) and 21.4% higher than the best national check OS 6 (310.0 q/ha) and 1.9% superior than the zonal check OS 403 (369.5 q/ha) in South zone, whereas it gave 295.2 q/ha green fodder yield which is 6.4% more than the national check OS 6 (277.5 q/ha) and 5.0% higher than the best national check Kent (281.2 q/ha) and 1.7% superior than the zonal check SKO 96 (290.2 q/ha) in Hill zone of the country. In case of dry matter yield, the variety HFO 806 (83.9 q/ha) exhibited superiority over the national check Kent (65.9 q/ha) by 27.3%, the best national check OS 6 (66.9 q/ha) by 25.4% and almost at par with the zonal check OS 403 (82.6 q/ha) and the best qualifying variety JO-06-23 (85.3 q/ha) in South zone, also the variety HFO 806 (71.6 q/ha) exhibited superiority over the national check OS 6 (67.9 q/ha) by 5.4% and the best national check Kent (68.8 q/ha) by 4.1% and almost at par with the zonal check SKO 96 (72.1 q/ha) and the best qualifying variety SKO 241 (72.8 q/ha) in Hill zone of the country. In South Zone, variety HFO 806 (9.5 q/ha) was almost at par with the national check OS 6 (9.9 q/ha) for seed yield (q/ha). But in Hill Zone, variety HFO 806 (23.9 q/ha) was 25.1% superior to the national check Kent (19.1 q/ha) and 23.2% superior to the best national check OS 6 (19.4 q/ha) and almost at par with the best qualifying variety RO-11-1-2 (23.2 q/ha) for seed yield (q/ha). The variety HFO 806 was almost at par with the national checks Kent and OS 6 for crude protein (%) in South Zone whereas it exhibited superiority over national check Kent by 4.96% and was almost at par with the best national check OS 6 for crude protein (%) in Hill Zone. Furthermore, it showed moderate resistance to powdery mildew disease in the Hill Zone.

Key words: Oat, single cut, green fodder, seed yield, crude protein, resistance

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PUMMY KUMARI*, D. S. PHOGAT, SATYAWAN ARYA, S. K. PAHUJA, SATPAL, N. KHAROR, B. L. SHARMA, D. P. SINGH, MANJEET SINGH AND SARITA DEVI
Forage Section, Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding
CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India
*(e-mail : pummy.hau@gmail.com)
(Received : 2 May 2023; Accepted : 22 June 2023)

SUMMARY

HJH 1513, a single-cut forage sorghum hybrid with high biomass yield and quality was developed by cytoplasmic male sterility in Forage Section, Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. It is released & notified for cultivation in kharif season for all sorghum growing areas of Haryana. HJH 1513 produced 716.5 q/ha green fodder yield (mean
of three years) which is 42.25 % increase over the check CSH 13 (503.66 q/ha) on the basis of three year data in Haryana. Dry fodder yield of HJH 1513 was 160.5 q/ha which is 47.9 % increase over the check CSH 13 (126.7 q/ha) on the basis of three-year data in Haryana. HJH 1513 has shown 12.33, 7.55 and 10.95 per cent superiority for green fodder yield over CSV 21F, HJ 541 and HJ 513, respectively at F3 fertility level i.e. 125% RDF. It has high total soluble solids (TSS) i.e 6.87% which is on par with checks CSH13 and HJ 541. It possesses 82.57 µg/g hydrocyanic acid (HCN) content which is less than permissible limit of 200 µg/g. Crude protein content was 8.59 percent and In-vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) was 52.96 percent which is higher than the best check CSH 13. It is resistant against major foliar diseases like zonate leaf spot, sooty stripe and grey leaf spot. This hybrid is moderately tolerant to shoot fly and stem borer.

Key words: Forage, hybrid, fodder, quality, disease resistance

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