Long-term effects of fertilizer and manure application on soil quality and sustainability of jute-rice-wheat production system in Indo-Gangetic plain
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A long-term fertilizer experiment was initiated in 1971 in sandy loam soil (Eutrochrept) of Barrackpore, West Bengal to study the effects of applying organic and inorganic sources of nutrients on yield of jute-rice-wheat system and soil health. The unfertilized soil supported yields of 0.8 t ha-1 of jute fibre, 1.5 t ha-1 of rice grain and 0.7 t ha-1 of wheat grain (average yield of 42 years). Application of 150% recommended NPK through chemical fertilizers produced maximum yields of jute (2.1 t ha-1), rice (3.8 t ha-1) and wheat (2.8 t ha-1). The yields obtained with 150% NPK fertilizers were 5%, 2.7% and 12% higher than that with 100% NPK fertilizers +FYM. Combined application of 100% NPK fertilizers and FYM, however, increased soil organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium from 5.60 to 8.90 g kg-1, 270 to 316 kg ha-1, 40.7 to 120 kg ha-1 and 139 to 236 kg ha-1 respectively. Maximum DTPA-extractable micronutrients in soil were also observed with 100%NPK fertilizers+FYM. Applying FYM together with NPK fertilizers increased microbial biomass from 221 to 435 mg kg-1 and microbial quotient from 3.95 to 4.89 with concomitant increase in dehydrogenase, phosphatase and fluorescein-diacetate-hydrolyzing activities in the soil. The acid phosphatase activity (139 to 275 ?g PNPg-1 h-1) was much lower than alkaline phosphatase activity (479 to 616 ?g PNPg-1 h-1). The enzymes assayed showed significant correlation with microbial-C and organic C. Beneficial effects of integrated nutrient management (NPK+FYM) on soil health were reflected on the yields of all the crops.
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Indo-Gangetic plains, Jute-rice-wheat, NPK uptake, Soil fertility, Yield sustainability
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Shahid, M., Shukla, A.K., Bhattacharyya, P., Tripathi, R., Mohanty, S., Kumar, A., Lal B., Gautam, P., Raja, R. and Panda, B. B. Das, B. and Nayak AK. (2015). Mi-cronutrients (Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu) balance under long-termapplication of fertilizer and manure in a tropical rice-rice system. Journal of Soils and Sediments DOI 10.1007/s11368-015-1272-6
Sharma, U. and Subehia, S. K. (2014). Effect of long term integrated nutrient management on rice (Oryza sativa L.) – wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) productivity and soil properties in North –Western Himalaya. Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science, 62 (3): 248-254
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Subbiah, B.V. and Asija, G.L. (1956). A rapid procedure for the determination of available nitrogen in soils. Current Science, 25: 259–260
Subehia, S.K. and Sepehya, S. (2012). Influence of long-term nitrogen substitution through organics on yield, uptake and available nutrients in a rice-wheat system in an acidic soil. Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science, 60(3): 213-217
Tabatabai, M.A. and Bremner, J.M. (1969). Use of P-nitrophenyl phosphate for assay of soil phosphatase activity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, (1): 301–307
Urkurkar, J.S., A. Tiwari, S. Chitale, R.K. Bajpai, (2010). Influence of long- term use of inorganic and organic manures on soil fertility and sustainable productivity of rice (Oryza sativa) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) in inceptisols. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 80: 208-212
Verma, A., Nepalia, V., and Kanthaliya, P.C. (2005). Effect of continuous cropping and fertilization on crop yields and nutrient status of a Typic Haplustept. Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science, 53: 365-368
Visser, S., Parkinson, D. (1992). Soil biological criteria as indicators of soil quality: soil microorganisms. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, (7): 33–37
Walia, M. K., Walia, S. S. and Dhaliwal, S. S. (2010). Long-term effect of integrated nutrient management of properties of Typic Ustocrept after 23 cycles of an irrigated rice (Oryza sativa L.) – wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) system. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 34: 724-743
Winding, A., Hund-Rinke, K. and Rutgers, M. (2005). The use of microorganisms in ecological soil classification and assessment concepts. Ecotoxicology and Environ-mental Safety, 62 (2): 230-248
Walkley, A.J. and Black, C.A. (1934). An estimation of the degtjareff method for determining soil organic matter and a proposed modification of the chromic acid titra-tion method. Soil Science, 37: 29–38
Yadav R. L., Dwivedi, B. S. and Pandey, P.S. (2000). Rice-wheat cropping system: assessment of sustainability under green manuring and chemical fertilizer inputs. Field Crop Research, 65:15-30.
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Long-term effects of fertilizer and manure application on soil quality and sustainability of jute-rice-wheat production system in Indo-Gangetic plain. (2016). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 8(4), 1793-1800. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v8i4.1042
