Ashish Kumar, Anil Kumar Singh, Mayank Mani Tripathi, Brijesh Kumar, Sandeep Singh, Atish Yadav, Utkarsh Singh, Abhinav Kumar and Shyam Beer Singh
Abstract
This investigation was executed during rabi season of 2023-24 and 2024-25 at Agronomy Research Farm, Kumarganj, Ayodhya, Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology. The experiment was sown in split plot design with three replications. Main plots includes three tillage practices viz., T1, Conventional tillage (Field was ploughed 3-times with cultivator followed by rotavator and crop residues were retained on the soil surface without incorporation); T2, Minimum tillage (Field was prepared with one rotavator and previous crop residue and weeds if any incorporated in the soil and T3, Zero tillage (Field was not disturbed and 3 t/ha wheat residues were kept) in main plots and 4 methods of precise nutrients application methods viz. N1, 50% RDF (1/3rd Point placement as basal, 30 DAS and 50 DAS); N2, 75% RDF (1/3rd Band placement as basal, 30 DAS and 50 DAS); N3,100% RDF (1/3rd Band placement as basal, 30 DAS and 50 DAS) and N4, 100% RDF (1/3rd basal + 2 Top dress broadcasting). with spacing of 60 x 20 cm. Among the tillage treatments, minimum tillage recorded the highest grain yield (6.06 and 6.13 t ha-¹), which was significantly superior to conventional tillage (5.18 and 5.24 t ha-¹), but remained statistically at par with zero tillage (5.76 and 5.82 t ha-¹).