Anjali Chauhan, Sushil Kumar Yadav, Anand Kumar Diwakar, Jyoti Singh, Mithilesh Kumar, Manu Shashwat and Vikas Yadav
Abstract
A field experiment was conducted at Student Instructional Farm, ANDUA&T, Kumarganj, Ayodhya (U.P), during the Kharif seasons of 2024-25. The experimental site is located within the Agro climatic zone of middle gangetic plain, which is characterized by fertile soil and favourable climatic condition for direct seeded rice. the experiment was carried out by using randomised block design(RBD) to ensure statistical reliability and reduce the variability, include ten treatment combination with each replicated three times. This research experiment aimed to observed the crop performance and their interaction with treatment under the field condition. The study focused on assessing the Growth and Yield of soil properties for optimizing the rice crop production. The results showed that the highest Microbial Biomass Carbon (162.6 ?g MBC g-1 soil), Soil Dehydrogenase activity (48.88 ?g TPF g soil-1 day), Alkaline Phosphatase (38.45 ?g PNP released g-1 soil h-1), Total soil microbial count bacteria (13.9 cfu 106 g-1 soil), actinomycetes (10.9 cfu 104 g-1 soil) and fungi (7.9 cfu 103 g-1 soil) was observed and at harvest stage highest Plant height was recorded at T9 with (105.22cm), and maximum number of tiller per m2 was recorded in T9 (182), Dry matter accumulation at harvest stage in rice was observed in T9 (1127.22 g-2), highest (54.88 q ha-1) was recorded, maximum straw yield (75.26 q ha-1), Highest biological yield in rice (130.14) was observed.