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EFFECT OF TIMES OF FERTILIZER APPLICATION AND WEED MANAGEMENT ON IRRIGATED COTTON

Volume : 74
Issue: Aug-sep
Pages: 341 - 345
Published: September 22, 2023
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Abstract


A field experiment was conducted at the Department of Agronomy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University during the winter season of 1985 with a cotton cv. MCU 5 to study the effect of time of application of fertilizers and weed management practices on seed cotton yield. The optimum dose of N for MCU 5 cotton was 60 kg/ha. De- laying the application of N (25%) P,0, and K,0 (100%) to seedling stage (25 DAS) and subsequently top dressing of 50 per cent N at squaring and 25 per sent at flowering increased the seed cotton yield over the conventional basal application of N (50%) P,0. and K,0 (100%) and top dressing 50% at squaring. Delayed application N, P,0. and K,O reduced the cost of wasding by Rs. 142/haowing to lesser weed growth. The above findings are also suited to the areas where cotton is dibbled in rice and ragi stub- bles.

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341 - 345
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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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