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PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON LENTIL IN DRYLAND AREAS (Pages : 20 - 23)

A field experiment was conducted at Pulses Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna during rabi seasons of 2005- 06 and 2006-2007 to find out the effect of different management practices on lentil cultivation for higher and economically viable yield. There were ten treatment combinations, such as control(T1) , non-priming with recommended fertilizer dose (RFD) @ 20-40-20 kg/ha of N-P2O5-K2O during final land preparation (T2), seed priming over night with RFD (T3), fertilizer application @ 20-60-20 Kg/ha of N-P2O5-K2O (T4), pre-sowing irrigation with RFD (T5), RFD + post sowing irrigation (T6), RFD + irrigation at 25 DAE (T7), RFD + irrigation at 25 days after emergence (DAE) + urea top dressed @ 20 kg/ha of N (T8), fertilizer P2O5 application @ 40 kg/ha within line (T9) and seed priming overnight + broadcast with RFD (T10) were included in the study. Among the ten treatments, T8 produced the highest grain yield (2152 Kg/ha) in 2005-06. In 2006-07 the highest grain yield (2350 Kg/ha) was also obtained by T8 which was identical to that of T5, T6 and T7 but the lowest grain yield (1283 Kg/ha and 1522 Kg/ha) was obtained by control in 2005-06 and 2006-07, respectively. Through the combined analysis, pooled results showed that same treatments i.e. T8 produced the highest grain yield (2251.0 Kg/ha) which was identical to T7. From the economic analysis, it was observed that the highest net return (Tk 66804 and Tk 72950/ha) and the highest benefit cost ratio (4.47 and 4.46) were obtained by the treatment T8 in 2005-06 and 2006-07, respectively. Download