EFFECT OF IRRIGATION AND FERTILITY BALANCE ON PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTION ECONOMICS OF BARLEY (Hordeum vulgare L.)

JAI PRAKASH¹, M.Z. SIDDIQUI², ASHISH DWIVEDI³*, THANESHWAR⁴, PRIYANKA BANKOTI⁵, ANOOP SINGH^6
1Department of Agronomy, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, U.P., 250110, India
²Department of Agronomy, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, 208002, U.P., India
³Department of Agronomy, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, U.P., 250110, India
⁴Department of Agronomy, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, U.P., 250110, India
⁵Department of Agronomy, Shri Guru Ram Rai (P.G) Collage Dehradun, Uttrakhand
⁶Department of Soil Science, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut,U.P., India
* Corresponding Author : ashishdwivedi842@gmail.com

Received : 19-09-2015     Accepted : 27-10-2015     Published : 14-12-2015
Volume : 7     Issue : 13       Pages : 817 - 821
Int J Agr Sci 7.13 (2015):817-821

Keywords : Barley Crop, Fertility Balance, Irrigation and Production Economics
Academic Editor : Indranil Das, Gaikwad Ganesh K, Dr V. K. Garg
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : None declared
Author Contribution : None declared

The experiment was carried out during Rabi season 2011-12 on sandy loam soil to evaluate “Effect of irrigation and fertility balance on performance and production economics of barley crop” by using split plot design with three replication. Result revealed that significantly maximum growth attributes viz., plant height, fresh weight and dry weight/plant at 30 DAS and at maturity while number of tillers only at 30 DAS, yield and its contributes traits viz., length of ear and number of grains per ear were recorded in treatment where irrigation was applied thrice (tillering, flag leaf and milking stage), besides obtained highest grain and biological yield (40.48 and 97.24 q/ha), respectively as against two and one irrigation. Besides, shown its superiority to removed nitrogen and build protein yield in plant. Besides, fetches more B:C ratio (2.66) and economic efficiency (309.44 Rs/day/ha). Likewise Balancing the recommended dose of inorganic fertilizers (NPK-60:30:30) along with biofertilizers (Azotobacter and PSB) and FYM helpful in yield maximization over other fertility levels i.e. RDF + Biofertilizer + Vermicompost, RDF + Biofertilizer and RDF applied alone, besides achieved maximum performance, uptake and production economics.