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On-farm participatory technology development on forage cutting and nitrogen management in dual purpose wheat (Triticum aestivum) in North Western Himalayas.

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Title On-farm participatory technology development on forage cutting and nitrogen management in dual purpose wheat (Triticum aestivum) in North Western Himalayas.
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Creator Choudhary AK and Suri VK.
 
Subject dual-purpose wheat, farmer participation, forage-cutting management,grain yield, green fodder yield, net returns, nitrogen management, on-farm trials
 
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In addition to agriculture, livestock plays an important role in strengthening ruraleconomy of hill farming communities in northwestern (NW) Himalayas, where greenfodder shortage in winter months is a major production constraint for milch animals.Recently released dual-purpose early-sown wheat cultivar VL-829 holds great poten-tial to provide plenty of green fodder in lean winter months following appropriateagrotechnology in Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand, and Jammu and Kashmir states ofIndia in NW Himalayas. To validate the performance and profitability of recently gen-erated agrotechnology on forage cutting and nitrogen (N) management in dual-purposewheat VL-829 in wet temperate NW Himalayas under on-farm participatory mode, twoon-farm trials were conducted both under rainfed and irrigated conditions during Rabi2006–2007 and Rabi 2007–2008, using three agrotechnologies. Agrotechnology imbed-ded with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) at 80:40:40 kg ha−1+20 kg Nha−1(25% greater N) at green forage cut at 85 days after sowing (DAS) +seed rate at125 kg ha−1(25% greater seed rate) was proved as an appropriate agrotechnology forharnessing the ability of dual-purpose wheat VL-829 to harvest additional green forageyield of 58.75 and 92 q ha−1under rainfed and irrigated conditions, respectively, withrespective slight grain yield reduction by 4.76 and 8.89% over check [no forage cut +80:40:40 kg N, P, and K ha−1+seed rate at 100 kg ha−1]. This agrotechnology stan-dardized under on-farm participatory mode again fetched greatest gross and net returnsover other treatments owing to additional income due to green fodder. Overall, appro-priate agrotechnology on forage cutting and N management in dual-purpose wheatresulted in comparatively greater grain and straw yield with additional green fodderbesides the greatest profitability. Therefore, with agronomical interventions coupledwith farmers’ participation in different agroecological microniches of NW Himalayas,both grain yield stability and additional green fodder potential of dual-purpose wheatVL-829 may enhance significantly. This would thereby provide hill farmers with betteroptions to sustain their small-scale agriculture and livestock rearing for sustaining theirfarm livelihood in mountainous terrains of wet temperate NW Himalayas
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Date 2020-01-02T08:55:23Z
2020-01-02T08:55:23Z
2013-04-11
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Choudhary AK and Suri VK. 2013. On-farm participatory technology development on forage cutting and nitrogen management in dual purpose wheat (Triticum aestivum) in North Western Himalayas. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis (In Press).
ISSN: 0010-3624 print / 1532-2416 online
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/29199
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Taylor & Francis Publication