1Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad-211 007 (UP)
2Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar, J&K, 191 121.
Online published on 3 April, 2012.
A field study under sub-tropical condition of Allahabad was done to assess the benefit of biofertilizers including vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi @ 8 kg and 12 kg, Azotoobacter @ 5 kg and 7 kg, Azospirillium @ 5 kg and 7 kg, Phosphobacter @ 5 kg and 7 kg per hectare inoculation with untreated control. The maximum plant spread (33.83 cm) was recorded with the application of VAM @ 12 kg/ha (T2) followed by Azotobactor @ 7 kg/ha (29.39 cm) and minimum in control (22.44 cm) at 120 days after transplanting which were 33.66% and 23.64% more over the control. At 20 and 40 DAT, the maximum plant spread was recorded in T2 which had 42.83% and 27.34% more over control. Among the treatments vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM) @ 12 kg per hectare showed a significant increase in plant spread 33.83 cm (33.66%), days taken to first flowering (50.56) number of flowers 6.16 (47.88%), yield (33.14 t/ha) which was 41.63% higher over the control.
