Performance of cashew cv. Venurla-4 under organic management

An experiment was conducted to study the performance of cashew cv. Venurla-4 under organic management during 2015–16 at RFRS, Vegurle, Maharastra in Randomized Block Design with three replications and eight treatments. Treatments comprises of different source of manures which were applied in June. Among the different manures, application of 100 per cent N as Vermicompost + BCF produced highest nut yield of cashew cv. Vengura-4 (6.92 kg tree⁻¹ and 1.41 t ha⁻¹) with comparatively good shelling percentage (30.32%), cashew apple TSS (17.3^oB) and export grade kernel count (189.3 Ib⁻¹). Maximum apple juice percentage (74.0%) was observed when organic residue was recycled with addition of 20 per cent cow dung slurry. Available soil N content after harvest was noted maximum with application 50 per cent N as FYM + BCF + Rock phosphate, available P₂O₅ when organic residue recycled with the addition of 20 per cent cow dung slurry and available K₂O in green leaf manuring + planting cowpea.