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Irrigation and Manurial Requirements of Sunflower

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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