Vol. 11, Special Issue 1 (2022)

Author(s):
RK Doutaniya, CK Dotaniya, YK Ghilotia, Narpat Singh, Balwan, RC Sanwal, Priyanka Diwan, Hansa Dautaniya, Manju Lata, Kuldeep Singh, Oma Shanker Bhukhar, Sandeep Mohbe and RK Bairwa

Abstract:
Sesame and mungbean both are the important crop of arid Rajasthan. To enhance the productivity by mediating the soil fertility is a necessity to sustain the economic viability of the farmers. A field was carried to monitor the effect of sulphur graded doses on yield attributes of mungbean and sesame growing as inter-cropping. For this four sulphur levels viz., 0, 15, 30 and 45 kg sulphur ha^-1 in five inter-cropping systems viz., sole mungbean and sole sesame, mungbean + sesame in 2:1, 3:1 and 4:1. Yield attributes of mungbean like number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod and test weight whereas attributes of sesame viz., number of capsules per plant, number of seeds per capsule & test weight, growth, yield of crops gave considerably higher various attributes crop yield. The growth and yield attributes of mungbean was maximum recorded under mungbean + sesame (4:1), whereas in sesame it was mungbean + sesame (2:1). In both the crop growth and yield parameters were recorded maximum with increasing levels up to 45 kg S/ha. This study showing the efficacy of inter-cropping and application of S during mungbean-sesame cropping pattern.