PJB-2010-137
APPRAISAL OF PRESSMUD AND INORGANIC FERTILIZERS ON SOIL PROPERTIES, YIELD AND SUGARCANE QUALITY
MUHAMMAD ALEEM SARWAR1, MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM2, MUHAMMAD TAHIR3*, KAFEEL AHMAD4, ZAFAR IQBAL KHAN4 AND EHSAN ELAHI VALEEM5
Abstract
A field experiment was conducted under semi-arid climatic conditions to evaluate the response of pressmud in combination with inorganic fertilizers and alone (only inorganic fertilizers) on the yield and sugarcane quality parameters besides a value-added product (locally called Gur). It is obvious from the results that inorganic fertilizer use (T2) has increased the tillers per plant, number of millable canes, stripped cane yield, sugar yield and juice present cane by 38.95 %, 38.66 %, 51.96 %, 54.92 % and 21.9 5% respectively, over the control (T1). Similarly when higher dose of pressmud was applied in integration with inorganic fertilizers (in T3), it increased total soluble solids, sucrose, purity, CSS and sugar recovery of juice by 7.83 %
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