PERFORMANCE OF WINTER FLOWERING ANNUALS UNDER NATURAL FARMING SYSTEM
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2023-12-23
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UHF Nauni
Abstract
The present investigation titled, “Performance of winter flowering annuals under
natural farming system” was carried out in the experimental farm of the department of
Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture
and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (H.P.) during October, 2022 to April, 2023. To study the effect of
natural farming system on different winter flowering annuals. Treatments of eight winter season
flowering annuals with two sub treatments viz. T1: Natural farming system i.e Jeevamrit
@500ml/m2 at 15 days interval and T2: Inorganic farming system i.e Recommended dose of
fertilizer NPK (20:20:20) were applied through basal dose as well as drenchind method. The
experiment was laid out in a Randomized Block Design (Factorial) with sixteen treatments
combinations of replicated three times. The observations recorded were based on growth,
flowering and seed parameters. The results revealed that natural farming system performed better
as compared to inorganic farming system in terms of growth, flowering and seed parameters.
Maximum plant height (53.86cm), plant spread (37.65cm), number of branches per plant (14.33),
number of flowers per plant (56.38), flower diameter (4.09cm), duration of flowering (40.49days),
seeds per flower (75.76), seed yield per plant (3.68g), seed yield per plot (33.37g) and 1000 seed
weight (1.74g) were obtained from plants under natural farming system. While, minimum days
taken for flowering (90.53days) were recorded from plants under inorganic farming system.