to compute the optimum dose and source of sulphur in maize and to evaluate the impact of sulphur on growth, yield attributes and yield of maize. The experiment was carried out with three different sources of sulphur (Gypsum, Ammonium Sulphate and Bentonite Sulphur) and three levels (S @ 40 kg ha -1 , S @ 60 kg ha -1 and S @80 kg ha -1 ) and one source as urea, DAP and MOP and another source as urea, SSP and MOP comprising of eleven treatment combinations which were laid out in randomized block design and replicated thrice. In all the treatments nitrogen was applied in two split doses 50% as basal and 50% as top dressing at 45 DAS and entire dose of phosphorous, potassium and sulphur were applied as basal. Treatment T 1 was application of recommended dose of fertilizer i.e., N-P 2 O 5 -K 2 O-S @ 200-60-50-60 kg ha -1 without sulphur. Treatment T 2 was application of recommended dose of fertilizer through Urea, SSP and MOP. T 3 was T 1 + application of sulphur @ 40 kg ha -1 through gypsum; T 4 was T 1 + application of sulphur @ 60 kg ha -1 through gypsum; T 5 was T 1 + application of sulphur @ 80 kg ha -1 through gypsum. T 6 was T 1 + application of sulphur @ 40 kg ha -1 through ammonium sulphate. T 7 was T 1 + application of sulphur @ 60 kg ha -1 through ammonium sulphate. T 8 was T 1 + application of sulphur @ 80 kg ha -1 through ammonium sulphate. T 9 was T 1 + application of sulphur @ 40 kg ha -1 through bentonite sulphur. T 10 was T 1 + application of sulphur @ 60 kg ha -1 through bentonite sulphur. T 10 was T 1 + application of sulphur @ 80 kg ha -1 through bentonite sulphur. Highest grain (5596 kg ha -1 ) and stover yield (6995 kg ha -1 ) was recorded by treatment T 10 (S@60 kg ha -1 through bentonite sulphur) followed by treatment T 2 (5581 and 6976 kg ha -1 ) S@40 kg ha -1 through urea, SSP and DAP. Highest gross returns were recorded by T 10 (Rs. 80139 ha -1 ) followed by T 2 (Rs. 78623 ha -1 ) though highest B: C ratio was recorded by T 2 because of higher cost of bentonite sulphur fertilizer.

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An experiment was conducted at Regional Sugarcane and Rice Research Station, Rudrur during 2011 and 2012, to

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Agriculture wastes are the residuals from the growing agriculture crops horticulture and livestock. This paper focused on study on level of awareness of the respondents about agri waste management practices and its relationship with the profile of the farmers.. The Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. Thus a total of 120 respondents were selected by following simple random sampling method covering Medak district of Telangana state. From the analysis,it was found that majority of the farmers (55.00%) had high level of awareness, followed by medium (27.50%), and low (17.50%) level of awareness about agri waste management practices. From the analysis, it was found that infrastructure facilities and achievement motivation had positive and significant relationship with awareness at one percent level of significance. The variables age, education, farm size, farming experience, cropping pattern, innovativeness, information seeking behavior and training undergone had positive and significant relationship with awareness at five per cent level of significance. However cropping intensity and level of aspiration had positive and non-significant relationship with level of awareness about agri waste management practices. Government should provide subsidy on the purchase of machinery, special programmes need be to taken to improve awareness about agri waste management and encourage custom hiring centers to reach high cost technologies to the farners. Agri waste based communities need to be developed at ground level for the adoption and dissemination of agri waste management practices.