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Irrigation and Manurial Requirements of Sunflower

Volume : 66
Issue: Feb-feb
Pages: 115 - 117
Published: October 02, 2023
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Abstract


A field study with K1 Sunflower was conducted at the Agricultural College and Research Institute. Madurai with three irrigation regimes based on climatological approach coupled with three manurial levels on a clay loam soil. Irrigation scheduled at IW/CPE value of 0.75 was found optimum. lesser irrigation was at the expense of yield and higher irrigation was superfluous. Sunflower responded well to fertiliser application and the yield at a manurial level of 40:60:40 kg N, PO. KO per hectere was the highest (1246 kg/ha) and was economical

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115 - 117
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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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