Available Soil Micronutrient Status as Influenced by Tillage Practices, Nutrient Levels and Foliar Application After Redgram (Cajanus Cajan L.)

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GURRALA SURESH*, A.V. NAGAVANI, V. SUMATHI, T. GIRIDHARA KRISHNA, P.SUDHAKAR AND G. KARUNA SAGAR

 Department of Agronomy, S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati

ABSTRACT

A field experiment was conducted during two consecutive kharif seasons of 2019-20 and 2020-21 to study the influence of tillage, nutrient levels and foliar sprays on post-harvest soil available micro nutrient status of redgram on sandy loam soil which was low in available nitrogen, medium in available phosphorus and available potassium. The experiment was conducted in a split – split plot design, consisting of three tillage practices as main plots, three nutrient levels in sub plots and three foliar sprays in sub- sub plots. Tillage, nutrient and foliar sprays could not exerted significant influence on post-harvest soil available micronutrient status. But higher soil available micronutrient content was recorded with vertical tillage with subsoiler upto 60 cm deep at 1 m interval with application of 125% RDF and foliar application of KNO3 @ 1% twice with 15 days interval from 50 per cent flowering stage.

KEYWORDS: Foliar sprays, Micronutrients, Nutrient levels, Redgram and Tillage