ISSN 2375-1231
African Journal of Crop Science ISSN 2375-1231 Vol. 3 (5), pp. 165-175, July, 2015. © International Scholars Journals
Full Length Research Paper
Effect of green manuring jantar (Sesbania Acculata. l.) on the growth and yield of crops grown in wheat-based cropping systems
Javed Kamal
Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted 28 July, 2015
Abstract
A proposed field study of wheat-based cropping systems was conducted at Faisalabad (Post-Graduate Research Station). We used 7 treatments and Jantar as a green manuring crop to increase the fertility status of soil; after the vegetative phases of wheat, rice, sorghum, and mungbean, the agronomic parameters of these crops were recorded. hopefully all increased with jantar treatment when compared with controls. The benefit: cost ratio and physicochemical characteristics of the soil before and after the crop harvest were also calculated.
Key words: Benefit cost ratio, fertility status of soil, Jantar, physicochemical characteristics of the soil, wheat-based cropping systems.