Abstract

A field experiment was carried out to find the response of farm yard manure (FYM), chemical fertilizer and biofertilizer on lentil crop at experimental farm of Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra during rabi seasons of 2010 and 2011. Five treatments were applied and the impacts of the treatments were observed on yield and yield attributes of lentil crop. The application of FYM+chemical fertilizer increased the grain yield of lentil by 48.8 and 69.0% during 2010 and 2011, respectively. Seed inoculation with biofertilizer along with FYM influenced grain yield and yield attributes of lentil. However, combination of FYM+biofertilizer+chemical fertilizer showed maximum increase in grain yield (50.5 and 80.5%) and biological yield (34.9 and 40.2%), respectively, over the control in both the years. Suitability of the above integrated nutrient management practice for the sandy loam soils of Agra is ascertained for lentil crop production system.