Section 3 (Crop Management)

N-requirement in maize/millet relay cropping
Table 2. Yield and other characters of maize in maize millet relay system at HCRP, Dolakha (1740masl), Nepal during 2000-2001.
T.N.
Treatment Silking Tasseling Plant height Maize Yield
(days) (days) (cm) (kg/ha)
2000 2001 2000 2001 2000 2001 2000 2001
T1 100 % basal 76 75 70 73 229 233 4868 3785
T2 50% basal + 50% at knee high stage 77 76 74 74 211 260 6288 5614
T3 1/3 basal+ 1/3knee high + 1/3
tasseling stage
77 75 73 73 213 240 5239 5213
T4 50% knee high stage + 50% at
tasseling
79 75 75 72 220 240 5387 5271
T5 50% knee high stage+ 50% millet
transplanting stage
79 75 74 73 209 232 5245 5239
T6 1/3 knee high+1/3tasseling+1/3 millet
transplanting stage
80 75 76 73 209 249 5075 4236
T7 1/3 knee high+1/3 MTP stage+1/3 40
days after MTP stage
81 76 77 73 205 246 3941 4869
T8 100 % at knee high stage 81 75 74 72 234 242 5885 5475
Grand mean 78 75 74 73 216 243 5241 4963
Significance
** ns ** ns ns ns * *
C.V.% 2.25 1.83 2.69 2.05 7.1 8.93 14.1
6
17.3
LSD at 5%
2.43 2.02 2.92 2.19 24.2 31.8 1091 1262.
* MTP = Millet transplanting stage
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