Effect of nutrient management on growth and grain yield of pearlmillet (Pennisetum glaucum) in pearlmillet-wheat (Triticum aestivum) cropping system

A field experiment was conducted during crop and 100% recommended NP dose the rainy (kharifi season of 1991 at through fertilizers to winter crop; T,, 75% Agronomy Research Farm, Hisar. The group recommended NP dose through fertilizers + of soil was sierozem having sand 58.95%, 25% N through FYM to kharif crop and silt 24.01%, clay 17.04%, electrical conduc- 75% recommended NP dose through fertil- tivity 0.14 dS1m at 25OC, with pH 8.1. izers to winter crop; T,, 50% recommellded Available N, P and K were 130 kgha, 10.8 NP dose through fertilizers + 50% N >: kglha and 510 kglha respectively. The ex- through wheat straw to kharif crop and ,I- periment was laid out in randomized block 100% recommended NP dose through fertil- design with 4 replications. There were 12 izers to winter crop; T,, 75% recommended treatments, viz. TI, no fertilizer and no or- NP dose through fertilizers + 25% N ganic manure (control). to kharif crop of through wheat straw to kharifcrop and 75% pearlmillet (L.) R. Br. emend. Stuntz] and recommended NP dose through fertilizers to no fertilizer and no organic manure (con- winter crop; T,,, 50% recommended NP trol) to winter (rabi) crop of wheat L. dose through fertilizers + 50% N through emendThell. Fiori & Paol.); T,, 50% rec- green-manure to kharifcrop and 100% rec- ommended NP dose through fertilizers only ommended NP dose through fertilizers to to kharif crop and 50% recommended NP winter crop; T,,, 75% recommended NP dose through fertilizers only to winter crop; dose through fertilizers + 25% N through T,, 50% recommended NP dose through fer- green-manure to kharifcrop and 75% rec- tilizers to kharif crop and 100% recom- ommended NP dose through fertilizers to mended NP dose through fertilizers to win- winter crop; and TI,, conventional farmers ter crop; T,, 75% recommended NP dose practice (1 bag DAP + 1 bag urealha, given through fertilizers to kharifcrop and 75% in 2 splits) to rainy-season crop. The recom- recommended NP dose through fertilizers to mend dose of N, P,O, and 50 was 120,60 winter crop; T,, 100% recommended NP and 60 kgha respectively. HHB 60 pearl dose through fertilizers to kharifcrop and millet was drilled on 19 July 1991 @ 5 kg 100% recommended NP dose through fertil- seedlha, keeping intraline distance of 45 cm. izers to winter crop; T,, 50% recommended As per treatments, the entire dose of P in the NP dose through fertilizers + 50% N form of single superphosphate and half through farmyard manure (FYM) to kharif the quantity of N in the from of urea were