Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS OF DIFFERENT INTEGRATED NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT TREATMENTS ON ACIDLIME PRODUCTION

U.B. Deshmukh, S.G. Bharad, M.M. Kadam and N.S. Wagh

Abstract

Nutrition management is one of the important aspects in acidlime for improving the productivity and quality of fruit crops. Integrated nutrient management improve crop growth and quality of products, help in sustainable crop production through maintenance of soil productivity. Therefore keeping this fact in view an experiment was undertaken to calculate comparative economics of different integrated nutrient management treatments on acidlime production during 2010-11 and 2011-12 at Central Research Station, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola. The objective of the study was to analyse the comparative economics of different nutrient management treatments in acid lime. Further the study concluded that, the highest net monetary returns i.e., (Rs.304257) was obtained from the treatment T10 (75% RDF (450:225:225g NPK) + 50 kg FYM+100g Azospirillum + 100g PSB /Plant+200g ZnSO4/plant) with highest benefit cost ratio 3.33.