Acid soil of nagaland

A pot experiment was conducted during kharif season of 2016-17 and 2017-18 in completely randomized design with two lime levels (0 and ¼ lime of LR), four phosphorus levels (0, 13.4, 26.8 and 40.2 mg P2O5 kg-1 ) and three boron levels (0, 0.45 and 0.90 mg B kg-1 ) to study the treatment effect on nutrient content and uptake of maize and soil properties. It was observed that lime had a significant effect on biomass yield, nutrient content and uptake of maize.

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In acidic soils of Nagaland, the levels of available soil N, P and K together with organic carbon content and soil pH could be considered main soil fertility determinants. With a vision to come up with a best performing treatment that can be recommended for practice in the farmer’s field and to popularize the importance of forest litter in achieving sustainability, the present investigation has been undertaken to evaluate the effect of forest litter and its time of incorporation on soil fertility status.

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A field experiment was conducted at the ICAR Research farm Medziphema, Nagaland (25°50′24″N latitude and 93°50′26″E longitude) during the summer season of 2017 with green gram as test crop. Organic manures viz. Farm Yard Manure (FYM) and vermicompost were combined with biofertilizers viz. Rhizobium and phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) in different combinations and were evaluated in a Randomized Block Design with three replications.

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