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Dehradun is located at 410 North latitude and 440 East longitude and at an altitude
of 660 metres above mean sea level. This tract is characterized by Sub Tropic climate,
where both winters and summers are extreme. A maximum temperature of about 410-420
C is not uncommon during summer, while freezing temperature is accompanied by frost
occurrence in the months of December and January. The monsoon generally starts in first
week of July and the mean annual rainfall fluctuates around 1170 mm, the major part of
which is received during the months of July to September with a few showers rains
during winter months.
The meteorological data recorded of Dehradun city during the crop growth season
in year 2014 has been presented in Table 3.1 and Figure 3.1 (Anon., 2014). Maximum
temperature ranged between 35.00 and 46.40 C while minimum temperature ranged
between 23.00 and 32.20 C. Maximum mean temperature 38.40 C was recorded in the 28th
week in July and minimum mean temperature 29.70 C was recorded in 38th week in
September. While, the maximum mean humidity 56.3 per cent was recorded in 33rd week
in August and minimum mean humidity 35.7 per cent was recorded in 28th week in July.
Moreover, maximum precipitation 41.1 mm was recorded in the 38th week in August,
while minimum precipitation 0.5 was recorded in 28th week in July. Maximum wind
speed 6.14 km hr-1 was recorded in the 29th week in July and minimum wind speed 2.1
km hr-1 was recorded in the 38th week in September.
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Table 3.1: Weekly mean meteorological data recorded during the crop season
(August-September 2014).
Source: www.worldweather.com
SOIL ANALYSIS
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Table 3.2: Physico-chemical properties of the experimental field soil.
Soil depth
Soil Character Rating Method used
(0-15 cm)
Mechanical analysis
Sandy
Textural class
loam
Chemical analysis
Organic carbon (per 0.29 Low Walkley and Blacks Rapid Titration
cent) Method (Piper, 1966)
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CROPPING HISTORY
The experiment was carried out in Complete randomized block design (RBD)
having 7 treatments with four replications as shown in Figure 3.2:
Treatments
Symbol Treatment
T1 - Control
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Methodology
Number of treatments : 7
Number of replications : 4
Variety : PMH-1
AGRONOMIC PRACTICES
Preparatory tillage
The field was ploughed and given pre-sowing irrigation. When the field reached
at the optimum moisture conditions, it was ploughed four times with tractor drawn
cultivator followed by planking.
After the preparatory tillage, field was divided into 28 different plots of 4.2m
4.2m size. All treatment combinations were applied randomly as per layout plan in each
replication. The plots having integrated nutrient management were applied with well
decomposed FYM before 15 days of sowing the crop.
Sowing
The pre treated seeds of variety PMH-1 were sown by kera method in between the
rows by using corn seed at the rate of 16 kg ha-1 with a spacing of 20 30 cm on 17th
July 2014.
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Fertilizer application
Half dose of nitrogen was applied at the time of sowing to all the plots as per
treatment. Remaining half dose of nitrogen was applied at 30 DAS. Nitrogen was given
in the form of Urea.
Table 3.4: Dates of Important Agronomic Operations Carried out During Crop
Growth
The field was kept free from weeds by manual hoeing which was done on 10
August (23 DAS) and 3 September 2014 (46 DAS).
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Irrigation
Total six irrigations were given as per water requirements of the crop.
The crop was sprayed with the Fenvalrate @ 100mlha-1 to save the crop from the
attack of the Maize Borer after three weeks of sowing.
Harvesting
Immature cobs (baby corn) were harvested at 2-3 days after silk emergence stage.
Crop was harvested in three pickings manually. The crop was ready to 1st harvest within
61 DAS. Harvested cobs were marketed as fresh after dehusking. The crop was harvested
as green fodder after the completion of cob picking and sold to a dairy farmer.
Plant height
The plant height of five randomly selected plants from each plot was measured
from soil surface to the base of the top most leaf. The initial observation was recorded
at 15 DAS and subsequent observations were recorded at 30, 45 and 60 DAS. The
average plant height calculated in cm from five plants was put to statistical analysis.
Average numbers of leaves per plant from five randomly selected plants were
counted at 15, 30, 45 and 60 DAS.
Leaf area of five randomly selected plants was recorded from each plot at 15,
30, 45 and 60 DAS. Leaf area index was calculated by dividing leaf area with ground
area of plant as given below:
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Dry matter accumulation
Five plants were periodically harvested at 15 days interval from soil surface
from each plot and sun dried, and then, kept in oven at 65 0 C upto a constant weight
was achieved. After drying in the oven, dry weight of plants was recorded and
converted into q ha -1.
It is the number of days taken from sowing to initiation of cob formation. The
five randomly selected plants were regularly observed for recording the number of
days taken from sowing to cob formation.
Numbers of cobs from five randomly selected plants in each plot were counted
and average numbers of cobs per plant were calculated from it.
Length of baby cobs of five randomly selected cobs in each plot was recorded
and then average length of the cobs per plant in cm was calculated.
Average girth of baby corn cob in each plot was measured in cm from five
randomly selected cobs after harvesting.
Weight of green cobs (with husk) was recorded from the five randomly
selected cobs in each plot separately and then average green cob weight in grams (g)
was calculated.
Weight of baby cob (without husk) was recorded from five randomly selected
cobs in each plot separately and then average baby cob weight in grams (g) was
calculated.
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Baby corn yield
After harvesting of the crop, green cobs were dehusked and weight of
dehusked baby corn yield per plot was recorded and converted into quintal per
hectare.
After harvesting of green fodder, its weight was recorded separately from net
plot sown area and then converted into quintal per hectare.
Benefit:Cost ratio
Additional cost involved and returns obtained with different treatments was
worked out on the basis of market rate of all applied inputs during experimentation on
per hectare basis. The benefit:cost ratio is computed on the basis of formula given
below:
Total income
B : C ratio
Total cos t of cultivatio n
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STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
Replications 3
Treatments 6
Error 18
Total 28
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