1Division of Vegetable Science, Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, (India)
2Division of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, (India)
*e-mail: sumatinarayan@gmail.com
Online published on 4 September, 2021.
A field experiments was conducted at SKUAST- K, Shalimar during 2018–19 and 2019–2020 to evaluate the effect of organic manures and biofertilizers on plant growth and seed yield of radish. The experiment was laid out in RCBD with ten different treatment combinations of FYM, vermicompost, vermiwash and biofertilizers and replicated three times. Plots without any nutrient input were taken as control. Results revealed that minimum values for days taken to 50% flowering (119.57) and days taken to seed harvesting (195.53) were recorded with treatment T8 (100% vermicompost + bio fertilizers @ 5kg.ha−1). Moreover, treatment T8 recorded higher values for survival of stecklings (94.20%), plant height (148.63cm),number of branches plant−1 (17.14), pod length (9.26cm), pod width (1.21cm), pod weight (0.42g), no. of pods plant−1 (803.97) and seed yield (28.80g/plant).
Bio-fertilizers, Radish, Seed yield, Steckling, Vermicompost
