Performance of cashew under organic conditions in Maidan area of Karnataka

The study was undertaken during March 2012 to April 2014 in the Bannur village of Chickmagalore district of Karnataka. The experiment was laid out in a split plot design with Ullal 3 variety of cashew on 9 year old 5 plants with 4 replications. The data revealed that in 2012–13 the stem girth, plant height and number of nuts per plant were higher (42.10 cm, 460 cm and 2730.8 respectively) in inorganic system and lower (41.05 cm, 454.65 cm and 2658.2 respectively) in organic system. However the weight of carnal and nut and yield were higher (2.90 g, 7.81 g and 4152 kg/ha respectively) in organic system as compared to inorganic system (2.57 g, 7.40 g and 4040 kg/ha respectively). The trend remained same in the year 2013–14 as the stem girth, plant height and number of nuts per plant were higher (42.15 cm, 461.90 cm and 2751 respectively) in inorganic system and lower (41.90 cm, 459.55 cm and 2712.2 respectively) in organic system.