2024, Vol. 7, Special Issue 10

author(s)
Payal P Sabale, Dr. VA Rajemahadik, Dr. VG More, Dr. MC Kasture, Dr. Suchitra S Desai, PP Sarawale, SP Rathod, VV Pisal, Shraddha V Nevase and AP Sabale

abstract
A field experiment was carried out during Kharif season of 2023 at Agronomy Farm, Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, College of Agriculture, Dapoli, Dist. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, to study the Effect of irradiated chitosan and biofertilizers on growth and yield of kharif finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.) in Konkan region of Maharashtra. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with Nine treatment combinations replicated thrice. The treatments of the experiment were T₁: Control, T₂: Seed treatment with PSB + Azospirillum, T₃: Seed treatment with IR-CSN @ 50 ppm, T₄: Seed treatment with PSB + Azospirillum + IR-CSN @ 50 ppm, T₅: T₂ + Acetobacter spraying at one day before transplanting, 50, 75 DAT, T₆: T₃ + foliar spray of IR-CSN @ 50 ppm at one day before transplanting, 50, 75 DAT, T₇: T₃ + foliar spray of IR-CSN @ 100 ppm at one day before transplanting, 50, 75 DAT, T₈: T₄ + foliar spray Acetobacter + IR-CSN @ 50 ppm at one day before transplanting, 50, 75 DAT, T₉: T₄ + foliar spray Acetobacter + IR-CSN @ 100 ppm at one day before transplanting, 50, 75 DAT. 20 x 15 cm was the spacing used for sowing the finger millet cultivar, Dapoli 2. Result found that growth parameters like plant height (cm), number of functional leaves hill^-1, number of tillers hill^-1, dry matter accumulation (g) hill^-1. and yield parameters like grain yield (q ha^-1), straw yield (q ha^-1), biological yield (q ha^-1), harvest index (%) were recorded significantly maximum values in treatment T₉ (T₄ + foliar spray Acetobacter + IR-CSN @ 100 ppm at one day before transplanting, 50, 75 DAT) over control.