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EFFECT OF SULPHUR AND MEGNESIUM ON THE SEED AND OIL YIELD OF SUNFLOWER

Volume : 83
Issue: Oct-oct
Pages: 644 - 646
Published: July 06, 2023
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Abstract


Field trials were conducted during summer and kharif, 1993 to evaluate the influence of sulphur (s) and magnesium (Mg) application to sunflower crop on yield, seed and kernel oil content. Application of S at 45 kg S ha-1 increased the seed yield significantly by 6.2 and 14.9 per cent over control during summer and kharif respectively while Mg application failed to influence seed yield. Seed oil and kernel oil contents were increased by 2.1 to 5.3 per cent respectively by S application. The oil yield was significantly increased by S application at 45 kg ha-1 the percentage increase being- 9.5 per cent during summer and 11.5 per cent during kharif. The cost benefit ratio of higher oil yield was found to be 7.21 and 9.83 per rupee investment in summer and kharif respectively for S application at 45 kg ha-1.

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644 - 646
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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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Sulphur Magnesium Sunflower Seed yields Oil yield
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