Effect of Drip Irrigation and Nano Zinc Oxide Biofortification on Yield Formation of Maize (Zea mays L.) in Sandy Loam Soil
Kalipada Pramanik*
Dept. of Agronomy, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal (731 236), India
Sk Naim Aktar
Dept. of Agronomy, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal (731 236), India
Digvijay Singh Dhakre
Dept. of Agricultural Statistics, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal (731 236), India
Swarnali Bhattacharya
Dept. of Agricultural Entomology, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal (731 236), India
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54083/ResBio/6.3.2024/113-120
Keywords: Drip irrigation, ZnO Biofortification, Correlation, Maize, Yield components
Abstract
The combination of sufficient irrigation and balanced nutrition methods leads to higher crop yields of the grains. An experiment was performed to assess the impact of several drip irrigation schedules, viz., DI1: once-in-2 days, DI2: once-in-3 days, DI3: once-in-4 days and DI4: surface flooding method (farmers' practice), alongside agronomic biofortification of zinc, viz., Zn0: no zinc treatment, Zn1: soil application of zinc sulphate at 20 kg ha-1, Zn2: foliar application of nano zinc oxide at 40 ppm, Zn3: seed priming with zinc oxide at 40 ppm and Zn4: seed coating with nano zinc oxide at 40 ppm on yield-contributing parameters and grain production of maize during the summer seasons of 2022 and 2023 at the Agricultural Farm, Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, West Bengal. The heightened frequency of drip irrigation programs markedly enhanced yield components and elevated maize grain yield. Biofortification of nano zinc oxide as seed coating enhanced yield parameters and grain yield. Correlation studies pointed out that grain numbers row-1, length of cob, girth of cob, weight of cob and seed weight cob-1 were highly significant and positively correlated with grain yield except number of grains-rows cob-1. Results also revealed that a highly positive and significant correlation was obtained between grain yield with seed weight cob-1 (0.744*** and 0.867***) during 2022 as well as 2023. It is rational to conclude that number of grains row-1, cob length, cob weight and seed weight cob-1 are the major contributors towards grain yield since these characters had high positive correlation.
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