Agricultural Science Digest

UGC CARE (Group 1)
  • Year: 2004
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue: 3

Effect of irrigation, sources and levels of sulphur on sunflower yield and nutrient uptake

  • Author:
  • G.S. Meti, G. Somanagouda, Suresh Doddamani, S.S. Meli
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 206 to 208

Department of Agronomy, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad - 586 101, India

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during rabi/summer season of 1996–97 to study the response of sunflower to irrigation, sources and levels of sulphur. The maximum seed yield of sunflower was obtained at 1.0 IW/CPE ratio (18.48 q/ha) as compared to 0.8 IW/CPE ratio (16.99 q/ha). The yield components, such as more number of filled seeds, higher seed weight and seed weight/head followed the same trend as that of seed yield. Application of gypsum as source of sulphur produced significantly higher seed yield (18.27 q/ha) than elemental sulphur (17.27 q/ha). Seed yield of sunflower was increased by application of sulphur at the rate of 60 kg/ha over no sulphur.