_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: drrkthakur28@gmail.com; International Journal of Plant & Soil Science 33(4): 25-31, 2021; Article no.IJPSS.67312 ISSN: 2320-7035 Response of Integrated Application of Inorganic Fertilizers and Vermicompost on Rice Productivity at Farmer Field Risikesh Thakur 1* , A. K. Shrivastava 1 , S. Sarvade 1 , S. K. Rai 1 , G. K. Koutu 1 , N. K. Bisen 1 and Mohmmad Imran Khan 1 1 College of Agriculture, Waraseoni (Balaghat), Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, India. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. Authors RT, AKS and SS designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, wrote the protocol and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Authors SKR and GKK managed the analyses of the study. Authors NKB and MIK managed the literature searches. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/IJPSS/2021/v33i430426 Editor(s): (1) Dr. Hon H. Ho, State University of New York, USA. Reviewers: (1) Yanpeng Wang, Nanjing Agricultural University, China. (2) Angélica Lino Rodrigues, São Paulo State University, Brazil. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sdiarticle4.com/review-history/67312 Received 28 January 2021 Accepted 03 April 2021 Published 11 April 2021 ABSTRACT Rice (Oriza sativa) is one of most important kharif cereal crop. The availability of nutrients in the soil for plant utilization is known to be affected not only by the inherent soil characteristics but also by the use of fertilizers and management practices followed for crop production. Therefore, a study on the response of integrated application of inorganic fertilizers and organic manure (vermicompost) on rice productivity at farmer field was carried out at Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. In between the technology intervention, human recourse development components were also included to excel the farmers understanding and skills about the demonstrated technology on nutrient management aspects. The demonstrations were conducted at different farmers' field at villages viz. Koppe, Chillod and Lendejhari on rice (variety JRB-1) during kharif season 2018-19 and 2019-20 under Indian Council of Agricultural Research funded Project on Farmer FIRST, College of Agriculture, Balaghat (M.P.). Based on the basic soil properties of farmer’s field, the present experiment included four treatments viz., T 1 - 100% NPK + 2 t Vermicompost ha -1 , T 2 - 100% NPK, T 3 - 100% NPK (– S) and T 4 – Farmer’s practice. Results indicated that the highest Original Research Article