EFFECT OF VARIETIES, CUTTING AND NITROGEN MANAGEMENT ON GRAIN YIELD AND YIELD PARAMETERS OF DUAL PURPOSE PEARL MILLET (Pennisetum glaucum L.)

MANJANAGOUDA S. SANNAGOUDAR¹*, B.S. LALITHA², T.M. RANJITH KUMAR³, D. SAMEERKUMAR⁴, D.S. PRABHUDEVA⁵, V. BHAVYA^6
1Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, 560065, Karnataka, India
²Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, 560065, Karnataka, India
³Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, 560065, Karnataka, India
⁴Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, 560065, Karnataka, India
⁵Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, 560065, Karnataka, India
⁶Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, 560065, Karnataka, India
* Corresponding Author : smanjanagouda928@gmail.com

Received : 28-12-2016     Accepted : 13-01-2017     Published : 24-01-2017
Volume : 9     Issue : 4       Pages : 3731 - 3734
Int J Agr Sci 9.4 (2017):3731-3734

Keywords : Varieties, Cutting, Nitrogen, Dual purpose pearl millet
Academic Editor : Tanmoy Sarkar
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : The authors are thankful to the scheme head AICRP on Forage crops, Zonal Agricultural Research Station, V.C. Farm, Mandya for providing research facilities to carry out this experiment
Author Contribution : None declared

A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2014 at ZARS, V. C. Farm, Mandya. The soil of the experimental site was red sandy loam with medium available NPK status. Experiment was laid out in RCBD with factorial concept replicated thrice. There were 12 treatment combinations involving 3 varieties (BAIF Bajra-1, AVKB-19 and GFB-1), two cuttings (Single cut at 45 DAS for green fodder and later for grain purpose and two cuts for green fodder at 45 DAS and at 40 days after first cut and later for grain purpose) and two nitrogen levels (100 and 150 kg ha-1). The results revealed that, the variety BAIF Bajra-1 recorded significantly higher grain and stover yield (8.95 and 62.66 q ha-1) compared to GFB-1 and AVKB-19. Single cut for green fodder followed by harvest for grain purpose has recorded significantly higher grain and stover yield (9.70 and 67.89 q ha-1) compared to two cuts for green fodder followed by harvest for grain purpose. Application of 150 kg nitrogen ha-1 has recorded significantly higher grain and stover yield (8.81 and 61.68 q ha-1) and superior over 100 kg nitrogen ha-1 (6.67 and 46.66 q ha-1). The variety BAIF Bajra-1 with single cut for green fodder followed by harvest for grain purpose along with application of nitrogen 150 kg ha-1 recorded significantly higher grain and stover yield (13.84 and 96.86 q ha-1). The variety BAIF Bajra-1 recorded significantly higher earhead length, earhead weight and earhead girth (37.24 cm, 18.93 g and 5.68 cm, respectively) compared to the variety GFB-1 (20.14 cm, 11.69 g and 5.67 cm, respectively) and AVKB-19 (19.15 cm, 8.66 g and 4.56 cm, respectively).