Productivity, nutrient use efficiency, energetic, and economics of winter maize in south India.

ABSTRACT: The winter maize area is rapidly spreading in south India in response to rising demand from the poultry and fish feed industries due to the absence of major environmental constraints. Further farmers' are using the winter environment to expand maize area and production. Hence there is immense potential to increase the area under winter maize cultivation. There were no planned field experiments to explore and optimize the right time of sowing and quantity of fertilizer to be added previously due to the presence of negligible winter maize area. Farmers used to cultivate maize as per their choice of sowing time with the application of a quantity of fertilizer recommended for rainy season maize. There were no efforts made towards working on economic analysis including energy budgeting. And hen

SUBMITTER: Hulmani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9302768 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature