Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges & Opportunities
during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
the incorporation of crop residues over the removal. Further increase in microbial count was
observed due to increase in level of N application. The highest total bacterial count of 333
X10 4 g -1 and 352 X10 4 g -1 of soil was recorded with incorporation of cowpea crop residues with
N application at 300 kg ha -1 . While the lowest count of total bacteria 61 X10 4 g -1 and 91 X10 4 g -1
in first and second year, respectively was obtained in greengram with N application at 75 kg ha -1
in removal of greengram residue treatments. The changes in the population of microbes in
different cropping systems and sequences were well established by Yadvinder Singh et al.
(2005).
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Yadvinder Singh, Bijaysingh. and Timsina. 2005. Crop residue management for nutrient cycling
and improving the soil production in rice-based cropping systems. Adv.Agron.8
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Response of Sweet Corn (Zea maysL.var. saccharatasturt) to Integrated
Nutrient Management under Rainfed Condition
P.N. Karanjikar, S.R. Kadhavane and V.G. Takankhar
College of Agriculture, Latur- 413 512, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani,
Maharashtra (India)
The cereal, maize (Zea mays L.) ranks third in the total production after wheat and rice and it is a
staple food in many countries, particularly in the tropics and subtropics. Maize is considered as
the “Queen of Cereal”. Maize is a versatile product with uses ranging from industrial products to
food preparations, as well as direct human consumption at the vegetative stage. Out of various
specialty corns, sweet corn is a mutant type with one or more recessive alleles in homozygous
condition that enable the endosperm to accumulate twice the sugar content as that of seed corn.
Sweet corn is a exhaustive crop and it is harvested at milky stage and requires fertile soils for
optimum production.
Amongst various agricultural inputs, fertilizer is and will remain as a chief source in achieving
the food production targets. For higher productivity, there is a need for the application of higher
dose of fertilizers. But the increased application of high analysis fertilizers and use of high
yielding cultivars demanding more secondary and micro nutrients for enhancing food grain
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