Sustaining farm productivity through watershed based participatory balance nutrient management: A case study from Semi-Arid Tropics of central India

Palsaniya, D R and Ramesh, S and Tewari, R K and Dhyani, S K and Yadav, R S and Wani, S P and Sachan, R and Pandey, S N (2016) Sustaining farm productivity through watershed based participatory balance nutrient management: A case study from Semi-Arid Tropics of central India. Indian Journal of Soil Conservation, 44 (01). pp. 13-18. ISSN 0970-3349

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Abstract

Participatory trials on balance nutrients were conducted during 2009–12 in a severely micronutrient deficit semiarid central Indian watershed to promote balance use of nutrients. Application of micronutrient increased groundnut pods plant−1 by 9%, seeds pod−1 by 6% and pod yield by 13% (1132 kg ha−1) compared to control in entry point trials. Similarly, chickpea variety "JG-130" grown with balance fertilizers also recorded 15 and 40% higher grain yield compared to "JG-130" and local chickpea variety, respectively grown with traditional practice. Application of B, Zn and S increased mean groundnut pod yield by 16.8% over control in further up scaling trials. The study on residual effect of balance fertilization indicated that grain yield of succeeding wheat, barley, chickpea and mustard increased by 8.3, 10, 8.8 and 9.2%, respectively. Further, the sustainability index of direct balance fertilization to groundnut was 0.8 and it was 0.76, 0.74, 0.76 and 0.83 in residual effect in succeeding wheat, barley, gram and mustard, respectively. Although nearly 88% farmers were convinced by the impact of micronutrients, but only 9% farmers actually used them in kharif, 2012 and availability of micronutrients emerged as the maj or hurdle in up scaling.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Research Program : Asia
CRP:	CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Adoption, Balance nutrient, Micronutrient, Participatory trials, Watershed
Subjects:	Others > Watershed Management Others > Water Resources
Depositing User:	Mr Ramesh K
Date Deposited:	28 Dec 2016 04:01
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2017 06:26
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9819
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Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	UNSPECIFIED
Acknowledgement:	The authors are thankful to the farmers of watershed area for their active cooperation and participation during the study and to the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for financial support for the watershed project.
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