PJB-2022-261
EVALUATING THE INTEGRATION OF VERMI-FERTILIZER WITH CHEMICAL FERTILIZER AND SIMPLE COMPOST ON MUNG BEAN (VIGNA RADIATA L.)
Ali
Abstract
Mung bean is a short-duration crop that delivers a source of protein. Like leguminous crops in nature, mung bean requires little amount of nitrogen but requires other essential elements. Vermicompost increases the chemical and physical properties of soil as well as the availability of nutrients to plants. A two year experiment was conducted at Student Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad during 2020 and repeated in 2021 for accuracy of results. The sequence of experiments were randomly replicated thrice to minimize the error under the Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). In this experiment, the treatments were T0 Control (Recommended fertilizers@ 20:60 NP kg ha-1), T1: 50% of recommended vermicompost (FYM) + 50% of recommended fertilizers, T2: 25% of recommended vermicompost (FYM)+ 25% of recommended compost (FYM) + 50% of recommended fertilizers, T3: 50% of recommended vermicompost (wheat straw) + 50% of recommended fertilizers, T4: 25% of recommended vermicompost (wheat straw) + 25% of recommended compost (wheat straw) + 50% of recommended fertilizers, T5: 50% of recommended vermicompost (rice straw) + 50% of recommended fertilizers, T6: 25% of vermicompost (rice straw) + 25% of recommended compost (rice straw) + 50% of recommended fertilizers. Mung bean yield and yield-related parameters were recorded. The results were analyzed through analysis of variance and treatment means at 5% level by LSD test. It was concluded from this study that 50% vermicompost (produced from FYM, rice and wheat straw) mixed with 50% recommended fertilizers showed excellent results. While, 25% vermicompost (produced from FYM, rice and wheat straw) and 25% compost (produced from farm yard manure, rice straw and wheat straw) mixed with 50% recommended fertilizers showed intermediate results whereas, control (recommended fertilizers) showed minimum results in mungbean crop and soil fertility decreased in T0 treatment.
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