Saturday, 14 May 2016

EFFECT OF INORGANIC AND ORGANIC SOURCES OF NUTRIENTS ON NUTRIENT UPTAKE, YIELD AND ECONOMICS OF PROCESSING POTATO (SOLONUM TUBERSUM L.).

An experiment was conducted during 2011-12 and 2012-13 in the Division of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Khasla College, Amritsar to study the effect of inorganic fertilizers and various organic manures on productivity, nutrient uptake and profitability of processing type autumn potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). The large sized (>40g) potato tubers and total tuber yield was statistically at par with inorganic fertilizers and 100 per cent nitrogen through vermin-compost. With inorganic fertilizers applications, the large sized potato tubers and total potato tuber yield was observed 5.82 per cent and 6.86 per cent more than application of 100 per N through vermi-compost, but total income, net income and benefit cost ratio was found higher with 100% nitrogen through vermin-compost followed by 100% N through DRS. These organic source of nutrients were statistically comparable with inorganic sources of nutrients. Sole application of organic sources of nutrients were equally efficient to inorganic fertilizers in improving the nutrients uptake, tuber yield and benefit: cost ratio (B: C). - See more at: 

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