Department of Vegetable Science, College of Agriculture, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, U.S. Nagar, (Uttarakhand)
1E-mail: raghav1963@yahoo.co.in
* Present address: GBPUAT, KVK, Dhakrani Dehradun.
Online published on 3 April, 2012.
The present studies were under taken during the year 2004–05 and 2005–06 to identify the response of okra variety to organic and inorganic sources of nutrition. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with eight treatments and three replications. Treatments comprising of four varieties (V1- Prabhani Kranti, V2-Arka Anamika, V3- PB-1 and V4- PB-266) and two sources of nutrition (S1- farmyard manure and S2- recommend dose of fertilizers) were tested. The emanated results revealed that varieties treated with organic manure showed maximum shoot girth, number of primary branches, plant height, number of fruits per plant and yield in comparison to same varieties which treated with inorganic fertilizers. The trend of uptake of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium under organic manure @ 20 t/ha was significantly higher than inorganic treatment. Nutrient balance in soil after harvest of crop showed higher balance of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium in organically treated plots.
