Influence of Farmyard Manure and Jeevamrutha on Growth and Yield of Sunflower

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during Kharif 2017 at ZARS, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru to study the influence of different levels of Farm Yard Manure (FYM) and Jeevamrutha on growth and yield of Sunflower in red sandy loam soil. There were nine treatment combinations laid out in factorial randomized complete block design, which were replicated thrice. The experimental results revealed that, the application of FYM at 150 per cent nitrogen equivalent and jeevamrutha at 1500 L ha-1significantly influenced growth parameters like plant height, number of leaves, leaf area, leaf area index and total dry matter production. The interaction effect of FYM and jeevamrutha was significant in enhancing the seed yield of sunflower due to improvement in yield attributes like head diameter, number of seeds per head, hundred seed weight and seed yield per plant.

Effect of Liquid Jeevamrutha on Growth Yield and Quality of China Aster (Callistephus chinensis [L.] Nees.)

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“…In natural farming use of jeevamrutha and ghana jeevamrutha could not increase the plant height, number of leaves and number of tillers significantly due to less availability of nutrients in soil for plant growth. The results obtained are in accordance with results of Manjunath et al [4] and Yogananda et al [5].…”

Effect of Organic Management on Growth, Yield and Economics of Green Gram, Pigeon Pea and Sunflower under Rainfed Conditions

“…The combined effect of improved growth parameters (plant height, leaf area and dry matter accumulation) through efficient metabolic activity, increased photosynthetic rate and a steady supply of photosynthates from source to sink might have led to the maximum expression of yield attributing characters. Similar results are found with Chaithra and Sujith [16] and Muhsin [9].…”

“…Higher capitulum diameter was recorded with the organic production system this is because organic manures are the store house of several macro and micronutrients that are released during the process of mineralization by stimulating the activity of microorganisms to make the plant nutrients readily available to crops therefore synthesis of more photosynthates may take place which might be resulted in better partitioning of photosynthates from source to sink and improved the yield attributes like capitulum diameter. This was supported by Chaithra and Sujith [16] and Muhsin [9].…”