Application of Farm Yard Manure for Raising Seedlings of <I>Prosopis cinerea</I> in Entisols

Abstract

Prosopis cinerea (Leguminasae) is a hardy tree species and mostly grown in arid and semi arid zones. In Chhattisgarh semiarid conditions appear in Entisols just after the rainy seasons. A nursery trial was conducted using Entisols supplemented by FYM in different ratio viz; 0 (T₁), 25 (T₂), 33 (T₃), 50 (T₄), 67 (T₅), 75 (T₆) and 100 per cent (T₇). The emergence of seedling was 64.3 per cent in T₁, T₅ and T₆ while 57.1 per cent in T₂, T₃ and T₄ with minimum in T₇ (42.9%). Survivorship of seedling was ranged 81.3 to 88.9 per cent. The growth in shoot, root length and dry matter accumulation was highest in T₇ (Pure FYM) followed by T₆ (75% FYM) with decreasing trend as share of FYM get decreased till T₁ (Pure soil). The observations were found statistically insignificant between T₁ to T₅ and T₅ to T₇ . The positive correlation among soil and plant parameters showed that availability of nitrogen in soil played very significant role for growth of stem, leaves and roots, while availability of phosphorus promote growth in stem and roots only. There was strong negative relationship between organic carbon and emergence of seedlings, resulted the least emergence in T₇ (42.9 %) due to toxicity causes by organic matters. Thus over all the application of FYM particularly in the ratio of 1:2 and 1:3 with Entisols in treatment T₅ and T₆ respectively were found better for raising the seedling and plants of Prosopis cinerea