RITU YADAV, POOJA GUPTA SONI, SATPAL, NEERAJ KHAROR AND KANNOJ
Department of Agronomy, Forage section, Department of Genetic & Plant Breeding CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India
*(e-mail: yritu360@gmail.com)
(Received: 14 December 2025; Accepted: 29 December 2025)
SUMMARY
The cultivable area under fodder production in India is consistent over the years and is facing deficiency in fodder requirement. Soil salinity is also major challenge to get sufficient production. So, with some management practices saline soils can be taken under cultivation and gap between the fodder requirement and availability can be reduced. With this objective the experiment was conducted at Forage Research Farm, CCSHAU, Hisar during the kharif season of 2024. It consists of 14 treatments formed by combination of two fodder sorghum varieties (HJ 260 and HJ 541) and seven thiourea doses involving: control, foliar spray of TU @ 400, 500 and 600 ppm at 30-40 DAS and @ 400, 500 and 600 ppm at 30-40 DAS and 50-60 DAS. The experiment resulted that among varieties, HJ 541 recorded the significantly highest green and dry fodder yield (30.25 and 7.37 t/ha) as compared to HC 260 (26.25 and 5.85 t/ha, respectively). Across the thiourea treatments, significantly highest green and dry fodder yield were recorded under foliar spray of TU @ 600 ppm at 30 and 50 DAS over the other treatments. Significant interaction was observed between cultivar and thiourea dosage for different characters including green fodder yield. Both cultivars viz. HC 260 and HJ 541, recorded significantly higher green fodder yield (28.75 and 32.26 t/ha, respectively) for foliar application of TU @ 600 ppm at 30 DAS and 50 DAS. Additionally, cultivar HJ 541 exhibited a statistically at par yield performance with foliar spray of TU @ 500 ppm at 30 and 50 DAS. So, it can be concluded that sorghum cultivars HJ 541 with foliar application of TU @ 500 ppm at 30 and 50 DAS can be recommended for higher green and dry fodder yield to meet the fodder requirement during kharif season under saline soil condition.
Key words: Sorghum, salinity, thiourea, foliar spray, green fodder and BC ratio