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Productivity and profitability of legumes as influenced by integrated nutrient management with fruit crops under hot arid ecology

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Title Productivity and profitability of legumes as influenced by integrated nutrient management with fruit crops under hot arid ecology
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Creator Devi Dayal
Shamsudheen Mangalassery
S.L. Meena
Bhagirath Ram
 
Subject Alternate land-use systems, Arid legumes, Economics, Integrated nutrient management
 
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A field study was conducted during the rainy seasons of 2008 to 2010 at Bhuj, Gujarat, to assess the possibilities of utilizing the inter-row spaces of fruit orchards of aonla (Embelica officinalis), ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.) and pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) for growing legumes such as clusterbean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.], cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] and mothbean [Vigna aconitifolia (Jacq.) Marechal] to serve as an additional source of income. The soil was sandy loam with low organic carbon. Among the 3 legumes evaluated, clusterbean performed well with orchards and gave 304, 399 and 315 kg/ha yields under aonla, ber and pomegranate
respectively. Highest benefit: cost ratio of 1.83 was obtained with ber + clusterbean system followed by
ber + mothbean (1.65). The experiment on nutrient management for the fruit–legume alley cropping system showed that application of 50% recommended dose of fertilizer (RDF) and zinc sulphate @ 20 kg/ha with biofertilisers resulted in the highest net returns (13,273/ha) and benefit: cost ratio (2.15) in cowpea. Clusterbean
as an intercrop with ber gave the highest net returns with RDF which was at par with application of 50% RDF with biofertilizer and zinc sulphate @ 20 kg/ha. The study revealed that the inter-row space in fruit crops may effectively be utilized for getting additional income for better livelihood of small and marginal farmers in hot arid region of Gujarat.
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Date 2019-06-03T09:32:24Z
2019-06-03T09:32:24Z
2015-06-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Dayal, D., Mangalassery, S., Meena, S.L., Ram, B., 2015. Productivity and profitability of legumes as influenced by integrated nutrient management with fruit crops under hot arid ecology. Indian Journal of Agronomy 60, 297-300.
0537-197X
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/20056
 
Language English
 
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