Effects of Different Sulphur Levels and Application Methods on Productivity, Nutrient Content, Nutrient uptake and Quality of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under Irrigated Conditions of Rajasthan, India

Abstract

A field study was carried out at the agronomy farm of the college of agriculture at Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, during rabi season of 2019–20. The experiment was laid out up as a split plot design, with three replications allocating four amounts of sulphur application at the base (0, 20, 40 and 60 kg ha-1), and four concentrations of foliar liquid sulphur spray (0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3% sulphur) done at 65 and 75 DAS, to main plots and sub plots, respectively. The results show that basal applications of sulphur at 40 kg ha-1 resulted significant influence on seed and straw yield, sulphur content in seed and straw, sulphur and nitrogen uptake by seed, straw as well as total uptake over control and basal applications of sulphur at 20 kg ha-1, which was being at par with basal applications of sulphur at 60 kg ha-1. Foliar spray of liquid sulphur (0.2%) significantly increased seed and straw yield, sulphur content in seed and straw, sulphur and nitrogen uptake by seed, straw as well as total uptake over control and foliar spray of liquid sulphur (0.1%), which was being at par with foliar spray of liquid sulphur (0.3%).