91 Environment & Ecology 33 (1) 91—94, January—March 2015 Website : environmentand ecology.com ISSN 0970-0420 Effect of Mungbean Residue Treated with Planting Techniques, Rhizobium Inoculation and Micronutrients on Succeeding Wheat Crop Prem Nath, Pawan K. Verma, R. B. Yadav, Amar Nath, Dinesh Kumar Received 23 April 2014; Accepted 31 May 2014; Published online 14 June 2014 Abstract The field experiment was conducted to study the effect of mungbean residue treated with planting techniques, Rhisobium inoculation and micronutri- ents on succeeding wheat crop during 2009-10 and 2010-11. Twenty four treatment combinations com- prised three treatments of planting technique (Flat bed narrow raised bed and wide raised bed ) two treat- ments of seedlinoculation (Rhizobium inoculation sand non-inoculation) and four treatments of micro- nutrients (control, Iron (Fe) @ 0.25% foliar spray at 25 and 40 DAS, Molybdenum (Mo) @ 0.25% foliar spray at 25 and 40 DAS and Fe + Mo @ 0.25% foliar spray at 25 and 40 DAS) were tested in split-split plot design with three replications and cultivars SML-668. The The highest grain yield 49.59 and 50.81 q ha -1 , straw yield 75.45 and 79.13 q ha -1 and biological yield Amar Nath, Dinesh Kumar PhD. Scholar Department of Agronomy, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology Meerut 250110 UP, India Prem Nath, Pawan K. Verma* Associate Professor Department of Agronomy, SVPU&T, Meerut, India R. B. Yadav Ph.D Scholar Department of Agronomy, CSAUA&T Kanpur, India e mail : Pawanjrf85@gmail.com *Correspondence 126.93 and 129.94 q ha -1 recorded of mungbean resi- due incorporation in wide raised bed (P 3 ) was signifi- cantly higher over flat bed (P 1 ) during 2009-10 and 2010-11 respectively. Keywords Mungbean residue, Molybdenum, Iron, Wheat yield, Economic. Introduction Mungbean (Vigna radiate L.) is one of the important pulse crops of kharif which contain about 25% pro- tein, 60% carbohydrate and 1.3% fat. It is grown in India on an area of 3.55 m ha with productivity 512 kg ha -1 and in UP on an area 78,000 ha -1 with production 45,000 tonnes and productivity 577 kg ha -1 [1]. Green gram is the early maturing crop and fits well with almost all croopping systems. It is also used as green manuring crop. Being a legume, it has the capacity to fix the atmospheric nitrogen (30-50 kg ha -1 ). The husks of the can be soaked in water and used as cattle feed. The benefits ofgrowing pulses in cropping systems are well established. They can fix substantial amounts of atmospheric N, which allows them to be grown in poor soils without N fertilizers. Though legumes play an important role in the national economy, they have been neglected by most countries where pulses are grown and are usually considered minor crops. They are usually grown on degraded soil with poor man- agement. Shah et al. [2] reported results of a rainfed