Integrated nutrient management for sustaining productivity and fertility under rice (Oryza sativa)-based cropping system

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during 1991-93 to study the integrated nutrient management for high productivity
and fertility building under rice (Olyza sativa L.)-based cropping system with special reference to sulphur
through ammonium sulphate along with green manure in situ and farmyard manure to rice only. The results showed
that maximum yield of rice (4.96 and 5.77 tonnes/ha in wet and dry season, respectively) was obtained in rainy season
rice (Oryza sativa L.) - oat (Avena sativa L.) as fodder-winter season rice-cowpea (Vigna unguiculate (L.) Walp.) as
green manure and rainy season rice-rice hean (Vigna umbellata Thumb.) as green manure winter-season rice-sorghum
(Sorghum bicolar (L.) Moench) as fodder sequence where rainy and winter season rice were green manured with
cowpea and rice-bean in addition to 50% of the recommended dose of NPK through urea, diammonium phosphate and
muriate of potash (60, 17.6, 33.2 and SO, 26.4, 49.8 kg NPK/ha in rainy and winter season rice, respectively) + farmyard
manure 10 tonnes/ha to rice only, which also gave maximum fodder or green matter yield of succeeding crop.
With this fertilizer management treatment higher net return, net production value (2.92), agronomic efflcacy, physiological
efficiency and recovery fraction (RF) were recorded in the sequence where both rainy and winter season rice
were grown after cowpea and rice bean as fodder. The uptake of nutrients (N,P,Kand S) by the crops in sequence and
nutrient status of soil were also improved where green manuring was done before transplanting rice with same fertilizer
management treatment (50% NPK + farmyard manure 10 tonnes/ha).