Foliar Nutrition and Its Influence on Productivity in Major Pulse Crops: A review

Abstract:

Maintaining food and nutritional security for the increasing population of the world is a great challenge for us. Pulses, in spite of being major source of protein to this exponentially growing population of the world and it also involved in biological process called “Nitrogen fixation”. The productivity of pulses are declining year by year due to many reasons. The major one is as they are grown in rainfed areas with low moisture availability combined with low fertile soils and another important physiological constraint which limits the productivity is flower drop. So, it needs earnest attention in adoption of desirable production technologies to exploit the yield potential of the pulses and it can be possible by foliar application of nutrients at critical stage/s of the crop as there is no regional recommendation of foliar spray during crop growth period and foliar nutrition is recognized as an important method since it facilitates easy and rapid utilization of nutrients.