IMPACT OF VERMICOMPOST ON GROWTH AND PRODUCTION POTENTIAL OF PEA (Pisum sativum L.) BASED INTERCROPPING SYSTEM
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2023
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College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar
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An experiment entitled “Impact of vermicompost on growth and production potential of pea (Pisum sativam L.) based intercropping system” was conducted at the vegetable farm, Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalrapatan City, Jhalawar during rabi season 2022-23. The experiment consisted of fifteen treatment combinations having three levels each of vermicompost (0, 2.5, and 5 ton/ha) and five levels of different intercropping system (Sole Pea, Sole Garlic, Pea + Garlic 1:1, 2:1, 2:2) in Factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications. The impact of vermicompost and intercropping system had significant effect on growth, yield, and quality attributes of pea other treatment
Vermicompost and intercropping system alone and combined show that significant effect on growth, yield and quality attributes on pea and garlic. The result shows that individual effect of vermicompost V2(Vermicompost@5ton/ha) and intercropping system I1 (Sole pea) on pea exhibited maximum plant height at 90 DAS (46.46 cm and 45.49 cm), plant height at harvest (69.63 cm and 68.66 cm), number of leaves per plant (43.07 and 42.15), stem diameter (0.68 cm and 0.65 cm), chlorophyll content of pea leaves (2.35 mg/g and 2.34 mg/g) , number of nodules per plant after harvest (9.85 and 9.64) minimum days required for first flowering (43.73 and 44.23), minimum days to 50% flowering (50.22 and 51.17), minimum days required to first pod harvest (65.59 and 65.84), maximum pod length (9.15 and 8.71 cm), weight of pod (3.59 and 3.79 g), number of pods per plant (9.06 and 8.72),weight of pod per plant (32.42 and 33.61 g), number of seeds per pod (10.69 and 10.65), weight of pods per plot (6.09 and 8.91 kg) and estimated yield (94.05 and 101.55 q/ha), total soluble solids (19.08 and 18.63 ◦Brix) in pea, Ascorbic acid (25.36 and 24.72 mg /100 gm), Crude protein (23.35 and 23.01 %), respectively.
Further, the result revealed the individual effect of vermicompost V2 (Vermicompost@5ton/ha) and intercropping system I2 (Sole Garlic) on garlic exhibited a maximum number of leaves per plant (8.90 and 8.62), length of leaves (55.38 cm and 51.55), plant height (59.66 and 57.94 cm), chlorophyll content of leaves (1.54 and 1.52
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mg/g), fresh weight of bulb (27.96 and 26.68 g), bulb diameter (4.58 and 4.18 cm), number of cloves per bulb (17.55 and 17.37), clove length (3.64 and 3.59 cm), clove diameter (0.72 and 0.59 cm), bulb yield per plot (5.54 and 9.60 kg), estimated yield (49.33 and 61.03 q/ha), TSS (34.89 and 33.58), ascorbic acid (11.91 and 11.52 mg/100g) and crude protein (7.46 and 7.08%), respectively. The interaction effect of vermicompost and intercropping V2I1 (Vermicompost@5ton/ha + Sole Pea) system on pea was found significant on maximum plant height at 90 DAS (51.19 cm), plant height at harvest (74.37 cm), number of leaves per plant (47.88), stem diameter (0.71 cm), chlorophyll content of pea leaves (2.53 mg/g), number of nodules per plant after harvest (11.72) minimum days required for first flowering (42.36), minimum days required 50% flowering (49.32), minimum days required to first pod harvest (62.08), maximum pod length (10.07 cm), weight of pod (4.22 g), number of pods per plant (10.02), weight of pod per plant (42.32 g), number of seeds per pod ( 11.72 ), weight of pods per plot (9.70 kg), estimated yield (123.00 q/ha) total soluble solids (19.93) in pea, ascorbic acid (26.21 mg /100 gm) and Crude protein (24.13 %), respectively
However, the interaction impact of vermicompost and intercropping system V2I2 (Vermicompost@5ton/ha + Sole Garlic) was found suitable for growth, yield and quality attributes of garlic. The maximum number of leaves per plant (9.56), length of leaves (60.45 cm), plant height (62.79 cm), chlorophyll content of leaves (1.62 mg/g), fresh weight of bulb (28.79 g), bulb diameter (4.87 cm), number of cloves per bulb (19.35), clove length (4.14 cm), clove diameter (0.85 cm), bulb yield per plot (10.36 kg), estimated yield (80.60 q/ha), TSS (35.97 ◦Brix), ascorbic acid (12.86 mg/100g) and crude protein (8.44 %).
The interaction impact of vermicompost and intercropping system significantly affected the gross income, net profit and B:C ratio for different treatments. Interaction effect of Vermicompost and Intercropping system also significantly increased the economics attributes maximum gross return (361172 ₹ ha-1), net profit (272244 ₹ ha-1) and B:C ratio (4.06) was recorded under treatment V2I5 (Vermicompost @5ton/ha+ Pea+ Garlic 2:2), respectively. The interaction effect of vermicompost and Intercropping system also significantly increased pea equivalent yield (166.040 q/ha), land equivalent ratio (1.25) under treatment V2I5 (Vermicompost@5ton/ha+ Pea+ Garlic 2:2), respectively.