PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY DYNAMICS OF PARCHING SORGHUM AS INFLUENCED BY SOIL AND FOLIAR APPLICATION OF IRON

A.B. AGE¹*, S. SATPUTE², G.S. LAHARIA³, D.S. KANKAL⁴, S.D. JADHAO⁵, G.V. THAKRE⁶, P.S. SOLUNKE^7
1Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, 444 104, Maharashtra, India
²Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, 444 104, Maharashtra, India
³Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, 444 104, Maharashtra, India
⁴Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, 444 104, Maharashtra, India
⁵Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, 444 104, Maharashtra, India
⁶Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, 444 104, Maharashtra, India
⁷Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, 444 104, Maharashtra, India
* Corresponding Author : aageashok1@gmail.com

Received : 02-11-2021     Accepted : 27-11-2021     Published : 30-11-2021
Volume : 13     Issue : 11       Pages : 10943 - 10946
Int J Agr Sci 13.11 (2021):10943-10946

Keywords : Iron, Soil application, Foliar application, Productivity, Quality
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Sorghum Research Center, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, 444 104, Maharashtra, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The experiment was conducted in the research field of Sorghum Research Unit, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola during Kharif season of 2020-21. The experiment was laid in Factorial Randomized Block Design (FRBD) with twelve treatments in three replications. The treatments Factor-A as containing four levels of soil application of FeSO4 and Factor-B consist three levels of foliar application of FeSO4. The variety of parching sorghum was PKV-Kartiki. The recommended dose of fertilizer i.e., 80:40:40 N, P2O5 and K2O kg ha-1 were applied common to all treatments. The results revealed that the green grain (hurda) yield, green fodder yield, oven dry parching grain yield, leaf-stem yield, root yield and panicle straw yield were recorded significantly highest with soil application of 30 kg FeSO4 ha-1 and with the foliar application of 1.0% FeSO4 at flowering stage which were found to be at par with treatment of soil application of 20 kg FeSO4 ha-1 and with the foliar application 0.5% FeSO4 at flowering stage respectively. The reducing sugar, non-reducing sugar, total sugar, crude fiber, ash content, fat content and protein content of parching grain were found significantly highest with the soil application of 30 kg FeSO4 ha-1 and with the foliar application of 1.0% FeSO4 at flowering stage which were found at par with the soil application of 20 kg FeSO4 ha-1 and with the foliar application of 0.5% FeSO4 at flowering stage respectively

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