Importance of Foliar Nutrition for Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan L.) | Chapter 08 | Research and Development in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 2
Generally, the nutrition for the crops may be given as basal, foliar and fertigation methods. But, most of the pulse crop is sensitive to flower dropping, which requires foliar application for flower setting and pod formation. To know the facts the field experiments were conducted to study the influence of different foliar nutrition on pod setting percentage, yield and economics of redgram (Cajanus cajan (L.) under irrigated condition at Regional Research Station, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Paiyur, Tamil Nadu, India in Kharif season of 2016-17. To study the effect of different nutrient sources were applied as foliar application of 2% DAP twice at flowering and 15 days thereafter first spray (T 1 ), Foliar application of TNAU pulse wonder at 5 kg/ha at peak flowering (T 2 ), Foliar application of 0.5% MAP twice at flowering and 15 days thereafter first spray (T 3 ). Foliar application of CCC 200 ppm twice at flowering and 15 days thereafter (T 4 ), and Control (water spray) ...