Claim · model-written summary
Farmyard manure at 10 t/ha improved sunflower seed yield by 9% over no application.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuuse0 - Treatment
- FYM @ 10e7
- Outcome
- seed yielde7
- Direction
- improvede7
- Value
- 9e7
- Comparator
- no applicatione7
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Verbatim
e0“to study the Nutritional yield and economics response of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)”
e7“Application of FYM @ 10 and 20 t/ha improved seed yield up to the tune of 9 and 15% over no application, respectively”
Title
Faisul-ur Rasool; Badrul Hasan; IA Jahangir; et al. Journal of Agricultural Sciences – Sri Lanka 2013. doi:10.4038/jas.v8i1.5373
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Plant height, leaf area index and dry matter production of sunflower significantly increased with nitrogen rates from 40 to 120 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen at 80 and 120 kg/ha significantly increased achene number per capitulum, filled achene number per capitulum and 1000-seed weight over 40 kg N/ha.
- Intervention effect Seed yield with 120 kg N/ha was 2.5 t/ha, at par with 2.4 t/ha at 80 kg N/ha.
- Observation Sunflower net returns with 120 kg N/ha were Rs. 53793.
- Observation The benefit-cost ratio of sunflower was higher with 120 kg N/ha, at 2.1.
- Observation Sunflower seed yield was maximum (2.42 t/ha) with 60 kg S/ha.
- Observation Sunflower net returns with 60 kg S/ha were Rs. 49115.
- Observation Sunflower oil content and oil yield were higher with 60 kg S/ha.
- Intervention effect Farmyard manure at 20 t/ha improved sunflower seed yield by 15% over no application.
- Observation Available nitrogen in soil was highest with 120 kg N+60 kg S+20 t FYM/ha.
- Observation Available nitrogen in soil was lowest with 40 kg N+30 kg S+0 t FYM/ha.
- Observation Available sulphur in soil followed a similar trend to available nitrogen.