Response of Garlic (Allium sativum L.) to Organic Manures and Fertilizers
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2014
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MPUAT, Udaipur
Abstract
A field experiment entitled “Response of Garlic (Allium sativum L.) to
Organic Manures and Fertilizers” was conducted during the rabi season in 2013-14 at
the Horticulture cum Instructional Farm, Department of Horticulture, Rajasthan
College of Agriculture, Udaipur, Rajasthan. The objectives of experimentation were
to assess the effect of organic manures in combination with fertilizers on growth,
yield and quality of garlic and economics of the treatments. The experiment consisted
of eleven treatments with RDF 100% (NPK120: 50:100 kg ha.-1) (T1), Neem cake
100% (40 q ha.-1) (T2), RDF 75% + Neem cake (10 q ha.-1) (T3), RDF 50% + Neem
cake (20 q ha.-1) (T4), FYM 100% (240 q ha.-1) (T5), RDF 75% + FYM (60 q ha.-1)
(T6), RDF 50% + FYM (120 q ha.-1) (T7), Vermicompost 100% (160 q ha.-1) (T8),
RDF 75% + Vermicompost (40 q ha.-1) (T9), RDF 50% + Vermicompost (80 q ha.-1)
(T10) and Neem cake (13 q ha.-1) + FYM (80 q ha.-1) + Vermicompost (53 q ha.-1)
(T11) were tested in Randomized Block Design with three replications.
The results were revealed that the application of different treatments
influenced the growth, yield and quality attributes of garlic. Among the different
treatments, application of RDF 50% + FYM (120 q ha.-1) (T7) recorded maximum
plant height at 90 DAP (65.52 cm), number of leaves per plant at 90 DAP (8.06),
harvest index (86.88%), bulb weight (30.93 g), bulb diameter (4.82 cm), yield per plot
(10.45 kg), clove weight (1.81 g), clove diameter (12.29 mm), clove length (3.24 cm),
TSS (43.13 oBrix), chlorophyll content of leaves (0.76 mg/gm/fresh wt.), sulphur
content (1.36%), dry matter content (46.34%), ascorbic acid (13.88 mg/100gm) and
crude protein content (18.95%) then rest of the treatments.
Description
Response of Garlic (Allium sativum L.) to Organic Manures and Fertilizers
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Yadav and Bairwa, 2014