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EFFECT OF PRE-SOAKING OF SUNFLOWER SEEDS IN MICRONUTRIENTS ON SEED AND OIL YIELD

Volume : 70
Issue: Jun-jun
Pages: 375 - 376
Published: September 28, 2023
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Abstract


Field experiments involving the presoaking of sunflower seeds for 12 hours in water 0.5, 1.0 and 2,0 par cant soultions of zinc sulphate and manganous sulphate and 0.5 per cent sodium molybdate were conducted at the Agricultural Research Station. Bhavanisagar during 1981-82 in soils low in available micronutrients. Pre-soaking the seeds in 2.0 percent Zn S04 for 12 hours gave the highest seed and oil yield per hectare.

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375 - 376
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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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