Research Article

Comparative Performance of Hybrid and Elite Inbred Rice Varieties with respect to Their Source-Sink Relationship

Table 1

Physical and chemical properties of the initial soil of the experimental plots.

CharacteristicsSite Site
Value/typeValue/type

% Sand 29.9713.08
% Silt 54.8644.25
% clay 15.2842.47
Textural classSilty loamSilty clay
PH5.876.70
Organic matter (%)1.431.20
Total N (%)0.080.13
P (μg/g soil)5.587.49
S (μg/g soil)7.897.25
B (μg/g soil)0.160.12
Cu (μg/g soil)0.150.27
Fe (μg/g soil)2.804.35
Mn (μg/g soil)0.741.63
Zn (μg/g soil)0.430.34
Exchangeable K (meq/100 g soil)0.100.17
Ca (meq/100 g soil)1.432.40
Mg (meq/100 g soil)0.350.87

Department of Soil Science, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka 1207.
Soil Science Division, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Gazipur 1703.
Red brown terrace soil type.