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SEED PRODUCTION OF VELVET BEANS, SUNNHEMP AND PILLIPESARA AS INFLUENCED BY PLANT DENSITY AND PHOSPHORUS APPLICATION

Volume : 85
Issue: Jan-jan
Pages: 35 - 38
Published: July 01, 2023
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Abstract


Field experiments were conducted at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Coimbatore during NEM season of 1993-94 and SWM season of 1994 to find the optimum spacing and P level for seed production of three green manure crops, pillipesara, sunnhemp and velvet beans. Velvet beans produced the highest seed yield of 2.03 t/ha in the NEM season while sunnhemp produced a high yield of 1.13 t/ha in the SWM season. Pillipesara produced a maximum of 795 kg/ha in the NEM season. Seed production varied with season. Highest seed yield was obtained at 60 x 20 cm in all the three crops. Application of 50 kg P20s/ha significantly increased the yield components and seed yield. High net returns and BC ratio were obtained in velvet beans grown in NEM season.

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35 - 38
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Pillipesara Sunnhemp velvet beans seed production
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