EFFECT OF DIFFERENT DOSES OF VERMICOMPOST ON SOIL QUALITY, YIELD AND UPTAKE OF NUTRIENT BY CABBAGE VAR. RAREBALL
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 50
Abstract
A field experiment was conducted during the rabi season of 2010 and 2011 at Central Agricultural University, COA, Imphal to evaluate the “Effect of different doses of vermicompost on soil quality, yield and uptake of nutrient by cabbage var. Rareball. The treatments consisted of application of organic fertilizer (vermicompost) at different doses viz. (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10) t/ha with a control for each replication. Significant influenced of vermicompost application were observed. The highest and lowest yield (21.11 and 12.42 t/ha), soil organic carbon content (2.56 and 2.11 %), WHC (68.22 and 61.53 %), available NPK (348.84 and 253.08 Kg/ha N, 26.59 and 20.04 Kg/ha P and 355.47 and 314.13 Kg/ha K), DTPA extractable Fe (159.73 and 151.63 mg/Kg) and DTPA extractable Zn (0.58 and 0.46 mg/Kg) was observed under T9 and T10, respectively. However, the pH of the soil was not influenced by the different treatments in both the first and second year of experimentation which ranged from 4.88 to 5.55. Analysis of dry leaf sample of the plants gave significant difference in nutrient uptake between the control plots and treatments. In the pooled mean data analysis of both the years, total NPK ranged from (2.94 and 2.22 % N, 0.66 and 0.46 % P and 1.39 and 1.37 % K), total Fe (77.17 and 70.90 mg/Kg) and total Zn (30.13 and 20.13 mg/Kg) under treatment of vermicompost 10 t/ha and without vermicompost respectively.
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INDIRA SARANGTHEM
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