Influence of soil organic matter on the productivity of pearl millet?-?Wheat cropping system

Gupta, A.P. and Narwala, R.P. and Antil, R.S. (2003) Influence of soil organic matter on the productivity of pearl millet?-?Wheat cropping system. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science , 49 (3). pp. 325-332.

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Abstract

A long-term field experiment was initiated in November, 1967 at Research Area of Department of Soil Science to study the response of nitrogen to pearl millet-wheat cropping system at various doses and modes of farmyard manure application. The soil organic carbon increased with farmyard manure application and ranged from 0.68% in control to 1.82% in the plot receiving the highest annual dose (90 Mg ha−1) of farmyard manure. To study the contribution of farmyard manure on the productivity of pearl millet and wheat crops, the constants (intercept and slope) were determined between the grain yield of pearl millet and wheat crops with increasing dose of fertilizer nitrogen. Another linear regression was fitted between the intercept of the linear model and the soil organic carbon content. It has been observed that with each unit increase in the soil organic carbon, the productivity of pearl millet increased by 273 kg ha−1 and that of wheat by 1591 kg ha−1. The regression between the slope and soil organic carbon was linear in case of pearl millet (R2 0.49) but in case of wheat there was no relationship.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Soil Organic Carbon, Pearl Millet, Wheat And Regression Constants
Author Affiliation:	Department of Soil Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125 004, India
Subjects:	Soil Science and Microbiology Crop Improvement
Divisions:	Millet
Depositing User:	Mr. SanatKumar Behera
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2012 12:51
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2012 12:51
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0365034031000148408
URI:	http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4113

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