Productivity and Economics of Ber-(Ziziphus Mauritiana) Based Horti-Pasture System Under Integrated Nutrient Management in Rajasthan

Deficit Irrigation-Nutrient Coupling on Growth, Yield, Fruit Quality and Water Use Efficiency of Indian Jujube

“…This reveals to the fact that sole application of recommended dose of readily available mineral fertilizer nutrients in splits doses as compared with that of the integration of organic manure and inorganic fertilizers was much congenial for adequate plant nutrition. These results are in contrary to the findings of Meena et al (2014) that The coupling effects between irrigation and nutrient management showed that at each irrigation regime, there was consistent decrease in growth, yield variables and yield with incremental substitution of mineral nutrients by vermicompost substrate with some minor deviations. However, maximum tree height (3.72 m), greatest tree circumference (0.32 m), highest number of fruits tree -1 (563), maximum fruit weight (15.5 g) and fruit yield tree -1 (8.42 kg) was recorded with the treatment combination of moderate deficit drip irrigation scheduling at 0.8 E 0 with 100% RDF (I 2 N 1 ) which was statistically at par with the treatment combination of drip irrigation at 0.8 E 0 with 75% RDF as mineral fertilizer+25% RDF as vermicompost (I 2 N 2 ) with the corresponding value of 3.68 m, 0.29 m, 550, 15.1 g and 8.35 kg, respectively barring a few.…”