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Research Article | Open Access | Peer Review

EFFECT OF FERTILIZER APPLICATION ON GROUNDNUT

Volume : 81
Issue: Sep-sep
Pages: 473 - 475
Published: August 13, 2023
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Abstract


In order to study the effect of fertilizer nutrients on groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.). field trials were conducted during kharif with five, treatments i.e. control. 50. 75. 100 and 150 per cent of recommended doses of fertilizers in randomised block design. Application of 20:80:20 NP z 05. K20 kg/ha (100% of recomended dose) resulted in 21. 10, 23 and 98 per cent increase in pod yield over 150,75, 50% of recommended dose and control respectively. The haulm, oil yield kg/ha. shelling per cent, 100 kemel weight (g) and SMK % were also higher with this dose. In higher dose. of NPK (150% of recommendation) a decline in pod, haulm, oil yield and in all studied characters was observed.

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473 - 475
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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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