Effect of Seed Rate and Nutrition Level on Growth and Seed Yield of Trigonella corniculata L.

Abstract

Optimum quantity of seed rate and fertilizers are required to enhance the growth and increase the production is need of the day. Consequently, an experiment was conducted at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during rabi season to study the effect of seed rate levels and fertilizer levels on coriander. The uppermost value for plant height, pod length, number of branches per plant, number of pods per plant and number of seeds per pod were recorded with seed rate of 7.5 kg/ha. The maximum value for plant height, pod length, number of seeds per pod, and biological yield was recorded with nitrogen dose of 60 kg/ha. The number of branches per plant, number of pods per plant, seed yield and harvest index attained utmost with 40 kg/ha while days to 50% flowering and days to maturity recorded highest with 20 kg/ha. Seed rate of 10.6 kg/ha and nitrogen dose of 40 kg/ha was found to be best to get higher seed yield and seed rate of 7.5 kg/ha and nitrogen dose of 40 kg/ha to get better growth and yield under semi-arid conditions.