The field investigation was undertaken during kharif and rabi season of 2014-15 and 2015-16 at VNMKV, Parbhani to study effect of tillage and nutrient levels on soybean based cropping sequence. Treatment consists of twelve treatment combinations comprising two tillage practices (minimum tillage, conventional tillage) and two cropping systems (soybean-rabi sorghum, soybean-wheat) in main plot, three levels of nutrients (75, 100 and 125 per cent RDF) in sub plot for soybean in kharif and after that for rabi sorghum and wheat in rabi season were assigned in a split-split plot design. Practice of conventional tillage with 125 RDF applications to soybean, rabi sorghum and wheat improved the yields, soybean equivalent yield, production efficiency of soybean based cropping system. Soybean-wheat cropping systems augmented the soybean equivalent yield and production efficiency of soybean based cropping system while land use efficiency was higher in soybean-rabi sorghum cropping systems.
Conventional tillage, Minimum tillage, Nutrient levels, Rabi sorghum, Soybean, Wheat
