Effect of Agronomic Strategies on Growth, Yield and Quality of Desmanthus Pre-Release Culture TND 1308

Abstract

Field experiments were conducted during 2016-17 and 2017-18 at the Department of Forage Crops, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore to optimize the seed rate and nutrient levels for Desmanthus pre-release culture TND 1308. The experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design with two replications. The treatments consisted of two seed rates viz., 15 kg/ha and 20 kg/ha as well as nine nutrient management options viz., 75 % of recommended dose of fertilizer as basal, 100 % of RDF as basal, 125 % of RDF as basal, 75 % of RDF as basal + 50 % of N as top dress after each cut,100 % of RDF as basal + 50 % of N as top dress after each cut, 125 % of RDF as basal + 50 % of N as top dress after each cut, 75 % RDF as basal+75 % of recommended dose of N and K fertilizer every year as top dressing, 100 % RDF as basal + 100 % of recommended dose of N and K fertilizer every year as top dressing, 125 % RDF as basal + 125 % of recommended dose of N and K fertilizer every year as top dressing. Results revealed that adopting the seed rate of 20 kg/ha was found to be optimum for achieving higher growth and yield in Desmanthus pre-release culture TND 1308. Besides, the application of 100 % of RDF as basal + 100 % of N and K as top dressing every year was found to be suitable for achieving the maximum growth, yield, and net return in Desmanthus prerelease culture TND 1308

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.2019.000314

Pages

582 - 585

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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