Optimizing sulphur management for growth, productivity and profitability in rice-groundnut cropping system

S G Kumar; K S Bijoy; B  Basudev; K B Akshaya; H S Gour; D Mira

doi:10.14719/pst.7249

Authors

S G Kumar Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar 751 003, India https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1102-0708
K S Bijoy Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar 751 003, India https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8765-5634
B Basudev Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, 751 003, India https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4629-0467
K B Akshaya Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar 751 003, India https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9818-0723
H S Gour Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar 751 003, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7060-5318
D Mira Department of Chemistry, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar 751 003, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8476-2146

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.7249

Keywords:

biological yield, oil yield , protein content, return per rupee investment, SPAD

Abstract

The rice (Oryza sativa L.)- groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is one of the most important cropping systems of Eastern India for human and animal diets. Both rice and groundnut benefit from sulphur application, but a major challenge in maintaining their growth, productivity and profitability is the widespread sulphur deficiency, affecting about 44% of Indian soils and 36% of soils in Odisha. A field experiment comprising five sulphur fertilisation strategies for rice viz., no sulphur, S @ 20 kg ha-1 through bentonite, S @ 20 kg ha-1 through gypsum, S @ 40 kg ha-1 through bentonite and S @ 40 kg ha-1 through gypsum allocated to main plots and three sulphur levels for groundnut viz., no sulphur, S@ 30 kg ha-1 and S @ 60 kg ha-1 allocated to the subplots was conducted in a split-plot design with four replications during the kharif and rabi seasons of 2021-22 and 2022-23 at Bhubaneswar, India to assess the effect of treatments on growth, productivity, quality and profitability of the component crops and the system. The application of S @ 40 kg ha-1 through gypsum to rice recorded the maximum values of growth parameters, biological yield, quality parameters and economics indices of rice, whereas the application of S @ 60 kg ha-1 in groundnut recorded the maximum values of growth parameters, biological yield and quality parameters of groundnut. Application of S @ 40 kg ha-1 through bentonite to rice combined with S @ 60 kg ha-1 in groundnut was the most remunerative with the maximum system net return (Rs. 113640 ha-1) and return per rupee investment (1.89) which is 106.96 % and 30.34 % higher respectively than no sulphur application to both the crops.

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