Current Advances in Agricultural Sciences

The field experiment to assess the response of mini sett raised Amorphophallus intercrop with banana to different nutrient management practices conducted in farmer’s field in Kollam district during 2016-17, revealed the significant influence of organic nutrition on the growth and yield of the crop. Plant growth characters, yield attributes and yield were significantly higher in the organically raised crop both as intercrop and pure crop. The highest yield recorded in intercropped Amorphophallus was 27.08 t ha^-1 and on a par with 75 and 50 per cent substitution of nitrogen (22.6 and 20. 67 t ha^-1). Per plant corm weights ranged from 0.95 to 2.20 kg and irrespective of the growing situation, 100 per cent organic nutrition recorded the highest corm weights. Significant increases in the organic carbon and available P and K status were also observed indicating the positive effects organic nutrition have on the soil properties.