Author(s):
Vipin Kumar Sagar, RK Naresh, Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Vineet Kumar, Thaneshwar and Praveen Kumar Sagar
Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted during 2014-15 and 2015-16 at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh., to assess the effects of furrow irrigated raised bed system and irrigation schedules on productivity, nutrient uptake and economics of wheat (
Triticum aestivum L.) on sandy loam soil. In this experiment, 3 irrigation schedules in 6 land configuration including 5 bed configurations in furrow irrigated bed planting systems and 1 flat planting with row-to-row distance of 22.5 cm. In furrow irrigated bed planting systems, the crop was planted on the top of beds of 75 cm bed, 2 rows (B
75–2); 75 cm bed, 3 rows (B
75–3); 90 cm bed, 2 rows (B
90–2); 90 cm bed, 3 rows (B
90–3) and 90 cm bed, 4 rows (B
90–4). The bed configuration 90 cm bed, 4 rows (B
90–4) and irrigation schedules 4 cm irrigation at 0.8 IW/CPE registered significantly highest grain yield, straw yield, harvest index, net return, benefit: cost ratio, N, and K uptake. In case P uptake registered significantly highest under 90 cm bed, 3 rows (B
90–3) and 4 cm irrigation at 0.8 IW/CPE.
Vipin Kumar Sagar, RK Naresh, Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Vineet Kumar, Thaneshwar and Praveen Kumar Sagar. Furrow irrigated raised bed planting and irrigation schedules: Productivity, nutrient uptake and economics of irrigated wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in Indo-Gangetic Plains. J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2017;6(6):1014-1019.