Evaluation of Baby Corn Hybrids on Varying Plant Population and Nutrient Levels

India is a largest producer country of the milk with largest livestock population in the world. Main herds of cow/ buffalo exist in surrounding areas of town and cities for supply of milk. The animal productivity directly depends on the availability of good quality green fodder. At present, the country faces a net deficit of 35.6% of green fodder, 26% of drycrop residues and 41% of concentrate feed ingredients (www.dare.nic.in/nodel/87). To overcome this problem, there is a need to shift from sole food and fodder crops to the dual or multipurpose food cum fodder crops. Under this situation, baby corn can be a good option as a dual purpose food cum fodder crop that can maintain the supply of fodder to the burgeoning livestock population of the country. Baby corn (Zea mays L.) refers to the whole, entirely edible cobs of immature corn, harvest just before fertilization at silk emergence stage. It is a dual purpose crop which provides green cabs for human consumption and fodder for livestock within 45-60 days after sowing. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted during kharif 2014 at Agricultural Research Station Banswara to evaluate performance of hybrids at plant spacing and nutrient levels