Vol. 11, Issue 10 (2022)

Author(s):
Shalini Meena, Versha Gupta, Baldev Ram, VK Yadav, NR Koli and Uditi Dhakad

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted during rabi 2021-22 at Instructional farm, College of Agriculture, Kota to evaluate the response of field pea to P & Zn fertilizers and their solubilizers. Results revealed that maximum plant height, dry matter accumulation (g), number of branches/plant, number of pods/plant, number of seeds/pod, seed (2256 kg/ha), straw (4406 kg/ha), biological yield (6662 kg/ha), net returns (55864 ₹/ha) and B:C ratio (1.63) was obtained with application of 40 kg P₂O₅ + 25 kg ZnSO₄/ha and was found statistically at par to 30 kg P₂O₅ + 18.75 kg ZnSO₄/ha. Among P & Zn solubilizers application of biophos @ 5 ml/kg + biozinc @ 5 ml/kg resulted in maximum and significantly higher growth, yield attributes, seed (2129 kg/ha), straw (4187 kg/ha), biological yield (6316 kg/ha), net return (52059 ₹/ha) and B:C ratio (1.56) over rest of treatments. Thus all treatments significantly increased growth, yield and economics of field pea over control.