author(s)
Prasad Mithare, Joy Dawson and Divya Pyngrope

abstract
Pulses are commonly known as food legume while are secondary to cereals in production and consumption in India. Black gram [Vigna mungo (L) Hepper] also known as urd, udid or mash is one of the important short duration pulse crop. The crop has its own importance due to high nutritional value of grains as human food and fodder as rich feed for cattle. The grains contain about 24 per cent protein on dry weight basis, which is more than twice than that of cereals. It is a good green manure and erosion resisting cover crop. The crop also improves soil fertility by symbiotic fixation of atmospheric nitrogen in root nodules. Application of 40 kg sulphur ha^-1 + 5.0 kg Zinc ha^-1 + 1.0 kg Molybdenum ha^-1 + 40 ppm (NAA) significantly increased growth, yield and quality parameters viz., Plant height (31.0 cm), number of branches plant^–1 (19.40), number of nodules plant^–1 (28.33), number of pods plant^-1 (31.46), seed yield (8.63 q ha^-1), stover yield (23.73 q ha^-1), harvest index (36.39), gross return (43581.0 Rs ha^–1), net return (10273.0 Rs ha^–1) and B:C ratio (1.63). This review article throws light on some important aspects on Secondary, Micro Nutrients and Naphthalene Acetic Acid (NAA) on Growth, Yield and Quality of Blackgram. References from various research articles & literature were compiled systematically with respect to the topic. Evidence based research studies were also reviewed in this regard.