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Research Article | Open Access | Peer Review

SOIL FERTILITY UNDER CONTINUOUS ROTATIONAL CROPPING OF COTTON - PEARL MILLET IN A DRYLAND VERTISOL

Volume : 76
Issue: Apr-apr
Pages: 189 - 191
Published: September 22, 2023
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Abstract


In a field study under dryland vertisol four annual addition of FYM in a fixed crop rotation of Cotton pearl millet to supply 40 kg N/ha markedly increased the organic carbon content. Total and available N content of soil also tended to increase under FYM addition: Available P,O, and K,O contents were not altered by the addition of inorganic fertilizers and FYM or their combination.

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189 - 191
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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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Cotton Pearl millet Soil fertility Vertisol
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