Biotech Today
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 1

Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Yield Attributes of Black Carrot and Physico-chemical Properties of Soil

  • Author:
  • Fouzea Nisar1, Shahnaz Mufti2, Sumati Narayan3, Rehana Rasool4, Rakshanda Bhat5, Najmah Andrabi6, Insha Majid7, Shaila Din8, Zahedullah Zahed9
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Published Online: Dec 16, 2020
  • Page Number: 46 to 49

1Division of Vegetable Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Email id: fouzeanisar2505@gmail.com

2Division of Vegetable Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

3Division of Vegetable Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

4Division of Soil Science , Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

5Division of Vegetable Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

6Division of Vegetable Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

7Division of Fruit Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

8Division of Fruit Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

9Division of Vegetable Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2017-2018 to assess the effect of integrated nutrient management on yield attributes of black carrot and physico-chemical properties of soil at Experimental Farm of Division of Vegetable Science SKUAST-K Shalimar. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with nine treatments replicated thrice. The nine treatments wereT:-RFD- (control), T2 (50%RFD+50%FYM), T3(50% RFD +50%VC), T4 (50%N&K+25%P+PSB+50%FYM), T5(50%N&K+ 25%P+PSB+50%VC), T6 (50%N&P+25%K+KSB+50% FYM), T7 (50%N&P+25%K+KSB+50%VC), T8 ( 50% N+ 25% P&K+PSB+KSB+50% FYM) and T9 (50%N+ 25%P&K+PSB+KSB+ 50%VC). Results revealed that among the different treatment combinations, treatment T9 recorded the higher values for average root weight (148.85 g), root yield per plot (23.81 kg), root yield per hectare (285.79 q). It was further revealed that treatment T9 recorded lowest soil pH (7.04) which was statistically at par with treatment T8 and treatment T5. Bulk density (1.10 g cc-1) was found to be lowest in treatment T9 which wasstatistically at par with treatment T8.

The treatment T9 resulted in improvement of soil electrical conductivity with a value of 0.287 dSm-1 which was statistically at par with treatment T8 and significantly higher than rest of the treatments. The treatment T1 showed least increase in electrical conductivity of soil.

Keywords

Black carrot, Integrated nutrient management, Yield, Physico- chemical properties