Improvement in rice crop productivity and soil fertility in field trial with magnetized fly ash soil conditioner
Keywords:
Magnetized Fly Ash, Soil Conditioner, Rice Crop, Soil Fertility,
Abstract
Field trial experiments were carried out on rice crop in 2010 using magnetized fly ash (Biosil) as soil conditioner along with recommended dose of fertilizer (RDF), keeping RDF and vermicompost (VC) as controls. Encouraging results on rice plant growth and productivity and soil fertility at very low concentrations (150 to 900 kg/ha) indicated the improved intrinsic soil conditioning power of fly ash. Biosil 900 kg/ha was observed to be the optimum dose for growth and yield parameters of rice. The maximum grain and straw yield of 47.7 and 77.4 q/ha were recorded under RDF+Biosil @ 900 kg/ha as compared to RDF alone (40.2 q/ha). The percentage improvements of soil parameters over initial status by Biosil optimum doses were 2.82% in pH, 2.69% in K, 5.50% in S, 20.83% in Zn, 6.45% in EC, 6.25% in OC, 0.80% in N, - 4.11% in BD and 3.73% in P. The general trend of improvement for growth of rice crop was Biosil+RDF > VC > RDF and for soil parameters was Biosil+RDF > RDF > VC. Thus it is suggested that integrated treatment would be the best for getting maximum benefits from Biosil.References
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4. Basu M, Mahapatra SC, Bhadoria PBS. Exploiting flyash as soil ameliorant to improve productivity of Sabaigrass (Eulaliopsis binata (Retz) C.E.) under acid lateritic soil of India. Asian J Plant Sci. 2006; (6):1027–30
5. Lee CH, Lee YB, Lee H and Kim PJ. Re-ducing phosphorus release from paddy soils by a fly ash gypsum mixture. Bioresource Technol. 2007; 98:1980-4.
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7. Reddy T, Prabhakar U, Rao M, Chandra-sekhar R. Effect of fly ash and farm yard manure on soil properties and yield of rice grown on an inceptisol. Agricultural Science Digest. 2010; 30:281-5.
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9. Jackson ML. (1973) Soil Chemical Analysis. (Prentice Hall India: Bombay).
10. Xiao X, L He, W Salas, C Li, B Moore, R Zhao, S Frolking, S Boles. Quantitative relationships between field-measured leaf area index and vegetation index derived from vegetation images for paddy rice fields. Int J Remote Sens, 2002;23(18):3595–3604.
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19. Sharma GD, Thakur R, Raj S, Kauraw DL, Kulhare PS. Impact of integrated nutrient management on yield, nutrient uptake, protein content of wheat (Triticum aestivum) and soil fertility in a typic Haplustert. The Bioscan. 2013;8(4):1159-1164
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24. Sarkar A, Singh A and Agrawal SB. Utilization of fly ash as soil amendments in agricultural fields of North-Eastern Gangetic Plains of India: Potential benefits and risks assessments; Bulletin of National Inst. Ecology. 2012;23(1-2)
25. Tandon HLS. (Ed) Methods of analysis of soils, plants, water, fertilizers and organic manure. FDCO, New Delhi, 2005
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27. Inthasan J, Hirunburana N, Herrmann L, Stahr K. Effect of FA application on soil properties, nutrient status and environment in Northern Thailand. 17th WCSS, Symposium no. 24, paper no. 249, 14-21 August 2002, Thailand.
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29. Change AC, Lund CJ, Page AL, Warneke JE. Physical properties of fly ash amended soils. Journal of Environ. Qual. 1977;6:623-631
30. Singh MV, Khamparia RS, Maji AK. Zinc fertility status in soils of Madhya Pradesh. Micronutrient Fertility Mapping for Indian Soils. Tech. Bulletin AICRP Micronutrients IISS Bhopal, 2008;7:I-60
31. Rai UN, Pandey K, Sinha S, Singh A, Saxena R, Gupta DK. Revegetating fly ash landfills with Prosopis juliflora L.: impact of different amendments and Rhizobium inoculation. Environ. Int. 2004;30(3):293-300
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