Abstract:
Herbicide is the most important input in the modern agriculture. The use of herbicides has
been expanding more rapidly than that of other pesticides. The injudicious application of
herbicides in agriculture causes the contamination of the soil with toxic chemicals and
become harmful to the microorganisms, plant, wildlife and man. In view of the above a
field experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2015-16 with the groundnut variety
TAG-24 with twenty four treatment combination in three replications. The result of this
experiment showed that the application of herbicide Flumioxazin along with different
combinations of biofertilizers PSB, Rhizobium and Azotobacter have no significant
adverse effects in the physico-chemical properties of soil (pH and EC), available nitrogen
content, microflora population (NFB, PSB, fungi, actinomycetes) and pod yield of
Groundnut.
