Influence of sowing times and fertilizer levels on seed yield and yield contributing parameters in Kasuri Methi (Trigonella corniculata L.), under Akola (M. S.) conditions

The present investigation entitled “Effect of sowing time and fertilizer levels on seed yield of kasuri methi (Trigonella corniculata L.)” was carried out in the year of 2016 – 2017 and 2017-18, at Chilli and Vegetables Research Unit, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola. An experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design (FRBD) with twenty four treatment combinations. There were two factors of an experiment, first being sowing time with six levels and second was fertilizer dose with four levels and replicated thrice to study the sowing times and fertilizer levels effect on seed yield and yield contributing characters in kasuri methi.Results of the present investigation revealed that, the yield and yield contributing characters viz. days to flower initiation, days to 50% flowering, florets per plant, pods per floret, seeds per pod, seed yield per plant, yield per plot (g) and yield per ha (q) were increased with early sowing D1 (10th October) and with the maximum fertilizer dose F4 (50:50:25 kg ha-1 NPK). As regards the interaction effect of sowing times and fertilizer levels, the treatment combination D1F4 viz. kasuri methi sown on 10th October and fertilized @ 50:50:25 kg ha-1 NPK produced significantly the maximum seed yield and yield contributing characters.