Vol. 6, Issue 6 (2018)
Effect of different organic mulches and green manuring on physical, chemical and biological properties of maize (Zea mays L.) in Alfisols of eastern dry zone of Karnataka
Author(s): MD Majeed Pasha, KS Rajashekarappa, T Chikkaramappa, K Devaraja and KS Somashekar
Abstract: A field experiment was conducted at Zonal Agricultural Research Station, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru to study the influence of different locally available organic mulches and green manuring on soil properties. The experiment consisted of 9 treatments namely, mulching with paddy straw, mulching with dry leaves, mulching with coconut fronds, mulching with saw dust, Horse gram insitu green manuring, sunhemp insitu green manuring, Glyricidia green leaf manuring, Pongamia green leaf manuring and control replicated thrice were laid out in RCBD. The result revealed that the treatment insitu green manuring with sunhemp has recorded the higher infiltration rate 5.80 cm hr-1, lowest bulk density 1.42 g cc-1 and higher water holding capacity 47.51 % after harvesting. And the same Significant improvement in available pH, soil nutrients (N, P and K) and organic carbon content due to insitu green manuring with sunhemp are 6.42, 227.00 kg ha-1, 28.67 kg ha-1, 133.78 kg ha-1 and 0.46 %. Similarly, significantly higher microbial population finds in the insitu green manuring with sunhemp.
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MD Majeed Pasha, KS Rajashekarappa, T Chikkaramappa, K Devaraja, KS Somashekar. Effect of different organic mulches and green manuring on physical, chemical and biological properties of maize (Zea mays L.) in Alfisols of eastern dry zone of Karnataka. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(6):862-865.
