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RESIDUAL EFFECT OF MANURES AND ZINC ON MAIZE

Volume : 74
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 150 - 153
Published: September 22, 2023
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Abstract


Two field experiments, one direct and one residual crop. were conducted using Zn deficient soil (DTPA-Zn 1.1 ppm) to study the direct and Residual effect of different levels of ZnSO. (0, 12.5 and 25 kg/ha, and different sources and levels of organics viz: FYM (7.5 and 15 t/ha) poultry manure (10 and 20 t/ha) and pig manure (25 and 5 t/ha) either alone or in combination on maize yield. The results indicated that the addition of ZnSO, plus organic manures to main crop, significantly increased the DTPA-Zn in the post-harvest soil of main crop and in the soil collected as vegetative stage of the yesidual crop. The combined appli- cation of pig manure at 5 tons along with 12 5 ZnSO./ha increased the grain yield. of the residiual crop Viz: Maize-Ganga-5 by 31 per cent over NPK treated control.

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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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