Progressive Agriculture
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 2

Correlation studies between available soil nutrients and leaf nutrients and yield of maize grown in Alfisols, Inceptisols and Vertisols in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh

  • Author:
  • R.V. Sagar Kumar Reddy, P. Venkataram Muni Reddy, Y. Ashoka Reddy, B. N. Raghavendhar, M. Vijaya Sai Reddy
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 48 to 52

Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, S.V. Agricultural College (ANGRAU), Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh -517 502

Online published on 10 February, 2014.

Abstract

A survey was undertaken to study the correlation between available soil nutrients and leaf nutrients and yield of maize grown in soils belonging to three different orders (Alfisols, Inceptisols and Vertisols) in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. The major (N, P and K), secondary (Ca, Mg and S) and micro (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu and B) nutrients in index leaf samples of maize crop were positively and significantly correlated with their respective available nutrients in the soil. Among all the soil nutrients, only Available N was positively and significantly correlated with yield of maize crop grown in Inceptisols whereas available N and Ca were positively and significantly correlated with yield of maize crop grown in Vertisols.

Keywords

Maize grown soils, Soil nutrients, Leaf nutrients, Correlation coefficients