Assessing the Impact of Zinc and Boron Supplementation on Oats Grown under Red and Lateritic Soil of West Bengal

Background: Avena sativa L. (common oat) is the most important among cultivated oat belongs to Poaceae family and known as Jai or Javi in Indian subcontinent. It winter forage many parts of world grown multipurpose crop for grain, pasture, a rotation crop. Methods: A field experiment was conducted study effect Zinc Sulphate Borax on growth, yield components, economics oats seed production red lateritic soil West Bengal during rabi seasons 2015-16 2016-17 at agricultural farm, Institute Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, Bengal. The laid out Factorial Randomized Block Design having two factors each with four levels (Zinc 0, 15, 20 25 kg/ha well 5, 10 15 kg/ha). Result: Pooled data over years experiments showed that application various significantly influenced growth attributes (dry matter accumulation, leaf area index rate), components (no. panicles/m2, no. filled grains/panicle test weight), (seed yield, straw biological yield) production. With increasing ZnSO4 application, highest number panicles/m2 (196.27), (3.00 t/ha), (6.94 t/ha) (9.85 were obtained though these par kg /ha. Higher (76.47), weight (29.93 g), (2.95 (6.70 (9.63 found borax @ kg/ha. gross return, net return per rupee investment achieved (₹ 1,17,257/ha, ₹ 68,997/ha 2.65, respectively) which higher than both ZnSO4/ha 1,15,051/ha, 64,489/ha, 2.52, 1,05,198/ha, 59,240/ha 2.44, respectively). Similarly, 1,15,537/ha, 69,070/ha 2.67, significant interaction between towards Use conjunctively (3.28 (10.81 1, 27, 530/ha), (₹78,760/ha) (₹3.78)