Response of chickpea to soil application of curedDAP and foliar nutrition under rainfed condition

Abstract

A field study on the effect of cured DAP and foliar nutritionon growth and yield of chickpea under rainfed condition during rabi2020 at Regional Agricultural Research Station, Vijayapur, Karnatakarevealed higher total dry matter per plant, number of nodules,chlorophyll content and leaf area in treatment DAP cured withvermicompost and foliar spray of 2 per cent DAP which was on parwith soil application of DAP cured in FYM and foliar spray of2 per cent DAP. Similarly, significantly higher number of pods perplant, grain weight per plant, grain yield, haulm yield and economicswere recorded with soil application of DAP cured with vermicompostand foliar spray of 2 per cent DAP and it was on par DAP cured inFYM and foliar spray of 2 per cent DAP. Significantly higher netreturns and BC ratio were realized in treatment combination of soilapplication of DAP cured with vermicompost and foliar spray of2 per cent DAP.