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ECONOMICS OF POTASSIUM MANAGEMENT IN RICE BASED CROPPING SYSTEMS

Volume : 83
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 168 - 172
Published: July 06, 2023
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Abstract


Field experiments were conducted consecutively for three seasons at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Four rice based cropping systems were evaluated. Application of either half or full dose of K fertilizer was tested for the respective crops. Skipping of K application to any two of the component crops of the cropping systems and K application to all the three crops were included. Rice rice rice system registered the highest net return. However, rice- rice. soybean system recorded higher net retum as well as BC ratio. Application of half the recommended dose of K was remunerative.

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168 - 172
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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.

Keywords


Rice Based Cropping Systems Potassium Fertilizer Gross Return Net Return BC ratio.
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