Effect of Spacing and age of Seedling on Growth and Yield of finger Millet (Eleusine coracana L.)

Author: Sanjay K.J., Vikram Singh, Dhananjay Tiwari, Shruti G. George and Padachala Swathi

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Abstract

A field experiment was carried out during kharif season of 2020 at Crop Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, SHUATS, Prayagraj (U.P.). The soil of experimental plot was sandy loam in texture, nearly neutral in soil reaction (pH 7.1), low in organic carbon (0.28%), available N (225kg/ha), available P (19.50kg/ha) and available K (213.7kg/ha). The treatments consisted of three different row spacing viz. 20 cm × 10 cm, 25 cm × 10 cm and 30 cm × 10 cm and three different age of seedling viz. 15 day old seedling, 20 day old seedling, and 25 day old seedling, whose effect was observed on Finger millet (GPU - 28). The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with 9 treatments and replicated thrice. The results revealed that treatment with 20 cm × 10 cm + 20 days old seedling recorded maximum plant height (77.74 cm), more number of tillers per plant (7.39), plant dry weight (13.64 g/plant), number of grains per ear head (2013.67), number of effective tillers/m2 (149.17/m2), gra

Keywords

Finger miller, Row spacing, Age of seedling, Growth, Yield.

Conclusion

The findings based on above research trial indicated that spacing and age of seedling gave positive effect on growth and yield of Finger millet. The treatment combination 20cm × 10cm + 20 days old seedling was found more productive (2680.00kg/ha) as well as economically viable (INR78,896.33/ha). Concluded that treatments of 20cm × 10cm + 20 days old seedling is beneficial for farmers practice.

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How to cite this article

Sanjay, K.J., Vikram Singh, Dhananjay Tiwari, Shruti G. George and Padachala Swathi (2021). Effect of Spacing and age of Seedling on Growth and Yield of finger Millet (Eleusine coracana L.). Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(1): 585-589.