Effect of micronutrients on growth and yield of transplanted rice

A field experiment entitled “Effect of Micronutrients on Growth and Yield of Transplanted Rice” was conducted during late-Kharif 2024 at College of Agriculture, Navile, Shivamogga, Karnataka. The results of the experiment showed that among the treatments, (T₇) application of 100 per cent RDF (100:50:50 kg ha^-1 NPK) + ZnSO₄ (20 kg ha^-1) + MnSO₄ (2.5 kg ha^-1) + CuSO₄ (1.5 kg ha^-1) + FeSO₄ (5 kg ha^-1) showed significantly higher values of plant height (107.00 cm), number of tillers hill^-1 (22.33), leaf area (1100.00 cm² hill^-1), dry matter accumulation (59.79 g hill^-1), no. of productive tillers per hill (20.90), panicle length (23.13 cm), panicle weight (2.67g panicle^-1), no. of grains per panicle (188.49), No. of unfilled grains per panicle (9.45), Chaffiness (5.00%), Test weight (27.44 g), grain yield (6476.6 kg ha^-1) and straw yield (8047.1 kg ha^-1) respectively, over RDF alone. However, it was on par with T_5.