Abstract
A field experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2017-18 at agricultural farm, Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal, to study the “Effect of zinc application on growth, yield and economics of baby corn (Zea mays L.) in lateritic soil of West Bengal”. The experiment was laid out in Factorial RBD having two factors: one with two levels of soil application of ZnSO4; 0 and 25 kg ha-1 and other with four levels of foliar spray of ZnSO4; no foliar spray, 25 DAS, 40 DAS and twice at 25 DAS & 40 DAS. There were eight treatment combinations with each treatment replicated thrice. Soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 exhibited significantly higher growth attributes (viz. plant height, number of leaves/plant, LAI, dry matter accumulation, crop growth rate) and yield attributes (viz. number of cobs per plant, corn and cob weight, corn and cob length, corn and cob girth and also corn yield, cob yield, husk yield and green fodder yield) of baby corn, than no soil application of ZnSO4. Foliar spray of ZnSO4 applied twice at 25 DAS & 40 DAS gave the highest yield components and yield in baby corn. However, this was statistically at par with foliar spray of ZnSO4 at 40 DAS and 25 DAS. Combined soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 and foliar spray twice at 25 DAS & 40 DAS interacted significantly and produced higher number of cobs per plant, number of cobs per hectare of baby corn cultivation. This was at par with soil application of ZnSO4 at 25 kg ha-1 and foliar spray at 40 DAS and significantly higher than foliar spray at 25 DAS.
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Soil ZnSO4 at 25 kg/ha increased plant height, leaf number and LAI of baby corn compared with no soil application.
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e1“baby corn (Zea mays L.) in lateritic soil of West Bengal”
e2“Soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 exhibited significantly higher growth attributes (viz. plant height, number of leaves/plant, LAI, dry matter accumulation, crop growth rate) and yield attributes (viz. number of cobs per plant, corn and cob weight, corn and cob length, corn and cob girth and also corn yield, cob yield, husk yield and green fodder yield) of baby corn, than no soil application of ZnSO4”
e0“A field experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2017-18 at agricultural farm, Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal”
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Soil ZnSO4 at 25 kg/ha increased dry matter accumulation and crop growth rate of baby corn.
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e1“baby corn (Zea mays L.) in lateritic soil of West Bengal”
e2“Soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 exhibited significantly higher growth attributes (viz. plant height, number of leaves/plant, LAI, dry matter accumulation, crop growth rate) and yield attributes (viz. number of cobs per plant, corn and cob weight, corn and cob length, corn and cob girth and also corn yield, cob yield, husk yield and green fodder yield) of baby corn, than no soil application of ZnSO4”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil ZnSO4 at 25 kg/ha increased cobs per plant, corn and cob weight and corn and cob length of baby corn.
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e1“baby corn (Zea mays L.) in lateritic soil of West Bengal”
e2“Soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 exhibited significantly higher growth attributes (viz. plant height, number of leaves/plant, LAI, dry matter accumulation, crop growth rate) and yield attributes (viz. number of cobs per plant, corn and cob weight, corn and cob length, corn and cob girth and also corn yield, cob yield, husk yield and green fodder yield) of baby corn, than no soil application of ZnSO4”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil ZnSO4 at 25 kg/ha increased corn and cob girth of baby corn.
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e1“baby corn (Zea mays L.) in lateritic soil of West Bengal”
e2“Soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 exhibited significantly higher growth attributes (viz. plant height, number of leaves/plant, LAI, dry matter accumulation, crop growth rate) and yield attributes (viz. number of cobs per plant, corn and cob weight, corn and cob length, corn and cob girth and also corn yield, cob yield, husk yield and green fodder yield) of baby corn, than no soil application of ZnSO4”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil ZnSO4 at 25 kg/ha increased corn, cob and husk yields of baby corn.
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e1“baby corn (Zea mays L.) in lateritic soil of West Bengal”
e2“Soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 exhibited significantly higher growth attributes (viz. plant height, number of leaves/plant, LAI, dry matter accumulation, crop growth rate) and yield attributes (viz. number of cobs per plant, corn and cob weight, corn and cob length, corn and cob girth and also corn yield, cob yield, husk yield and green fodder yield) of baby corn, than no soil application of ZnSO4”
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Soil ZnSO4 at 25 kg/ha increased green fodder yield of baby corn.
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e1“baby corn (Zea mays L.) in lateritic soil of West Bengal”
e2“Soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 exhibited significantly higher growth attributes (viz. plant height, number of leaves/plant, LAI, dry matter accumulation, crop growth rate) and yield attributes (viz. number of cobs per plant, corn and cob weight, corn and cob length, corn and cob girth and also corn yield, cob yield, husk yield and green fodder yield) of baby corn, than no soil application of ZnSO4”
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Foliar ZnSO4 applied twice at 25 and 40 days after sowing gave the highest yield components and yield of baby corn.
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- baby corne3
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- Foliar spray of ZnSO4 applied twice at 25 DAS & 40 DASe3
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- yield components and yielde3
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e3“Foliar spray of ZnSO4 applied twice at 25 DAS & 40 DAS gave the highest yield components and yield in baby corn”
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Foliar ZnSO4 at 40 DAS was statistically at par with foliar spray applied twice for yield components and yield.
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e3“Foliar spray of ZnSO4 applied twice at 25 DAS & 40 DAS gave the highest yield components and yield in baby corn”
e4“this was statistically at par with foliar spray of ZnSO4 at 40 DAS and 25 DAS”
e1“baby corn (Zea mays L.) in lateritic soil of West Bengal”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined soil and twice-applied foliar ZnSO4 significantly increased the number of cobs per plant and per hectare.
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e5“Combined soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 and foliar spray twice at 25 DAS & 40 DAS interacted significantly and produced higher number of cobs per plant, number of cobs per hectare of baby corn cultivation”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined soil and twice-applied foliar ZnSO4 gave more cobs per hectare than foliar spray at 25 DAS alone.
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e5“Combined soil application of ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 and foliar spray twice at 25 DAS & 40 DAS interacted significantly and produced higher number of cobs per plant, number of cobs per hectare of baby corn cultivation”
e6“This was at par with soil application of ZnSO4 at 25 kg ha-1 and foliar spray at 40 DAS and significantly higher than foliar spray at 25 DAS”
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