SB Agrawal, S Sarvade and Shivendra Singh Chauhan

A field experiment consisted of four planting techniques (i.e. Farmers practice, sowing by seed cum fertilizer drill machine, ridge and furrow method, sowing on broad bed furrow system 3 rows and sowing on broad bed furrow system 5 rows) under heavy soil of Jabalpur was conducted during kharif season of 2014 & 2015. These treatments were replicated 5 times under randomised block design. Soybean crop variety JS 9752 was sown on 28^th and 30^th June 2014 and 2015, respectively as per the sowing treatments. Results of the study recoded significantly highest germination (66.5%) followed by 63.3% under broad bed furrow sowing of crop with 5 rows and 3 rows, respectively. Plant population (42 plants/m²) and height (56.0 cm) of plants was recoded higher under farmers practice in which crop was sown on plat bed with help of seed cum fertilizer drill machine. Whereas, broad bed furrow recorded more number of field pods (31 per plant), seed per pod (2.2) as well as 100 grain weight of 9.05 g. Further, it was noted that broad bed furrow with 5 rows recorded the highest seed and straw yields of 22.3 and 54.2 q ha^-1 and proved superior over ridge and furrow, and farmers practice but found at par to broad bed furrow with 3 rows crop. The top ranking BBF 5 rows also fetched maximum net monitory retunes of Rs.89750/- per ha with B:C ratio of 3.72.

DOI: 10.22271/phyto.2019.v8.i1z.14841

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