1Senior Scientist, Department of Agronomy, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 492 012
2Senior Scientist and Department of Agronomy, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 492 012
3Principal Scientist, Department of Agronomy, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 492 012
Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 492 012
*Corresponding author's Email: sanjayigau@gmail.com
Online published on 2 September, 2019.
A field experiment was conducted during the winter (rabi) seasons of 2010–11 and 2011–12 at Raipur, Chhattisgarh, to study the effect of customized fertilizer (11: 27: 0: 6.6: 0.5% of NPKS and Zn) on performance of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Different doses of customized fertilizer were used in the study. The customized fertilizer (CF)-combination of N, P, K, S and Zn mixture-significantly influenced yield attributes, seed yield and nutrient uptake. The highest seed yield (2.2 t/ha), stover yield (2.7 t/ha) and the highest net returns ( 42, 883/ha) were obtained with the application of 150% CF dose. The uptake of N P K and Zn was also higher under this treatment. However, in terms of benefit: cost (B: C) ratio, application of 100% CF and 150% CF resulted in equal value, i.e. 2.9. Hence application of 100% CF dose can be considered as optimum, as it gave higher B: C ratio.
Chickpea, Customized fertilizer, Economics, Nutrient uptake of NPKS and Zn
