Effect of lime and organic manures on yield and quality of tomato and capsicum grown under protected condition in the mid-hills of Meghalaya
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61180/vegsci.2020.v47.i1.11Keywords:
Tomato, capsicum, protected cultivation, organic manure, lime, yield and qualityAbstract
Among the vegetable crops, tomato and capsicum are the
major crops grown under protected cultivation. Due to high
rainfall, the soil of north eastern region of India is acidic in
nature and deficient in essential nutrients such as calcium
and magnesium by leaching and phosphorous by fixation.
Therefore, productivity and quality of the produce is very
poor. The mild weather of the north eastern region provides
a better option for year-round production of these crops
under protected conditions to get the good market price
with higher yield and superior quality. With this background,
a field experiment was conducted for consecutive two years
(2011-2013) to study the effect of lime and organic manures
with fertilizers on growth, yield and quality attributes in
tomato and capsicum grown under low cost polyhouse with
the objective to develop the suitable integrated nutrient
management package for tomato - capsicum cropping
sequence under protected condition. The highest yield and
good quality fruits of tomato (72.6 t/ha) and capsicum (45.80
t/ha) was recorded with the application of NPK (60:60:60 kg/
ha) + vermicompost (5 t/ha) + lime (2.5 q/ha) in tomato and
60:60:60 (kg/ha) NPK + vermicompost (5 t/ha) in capsicum.
However, from economic analysis of cropping sequence,
the highest net income (¹ 13, 91,871 / ha), and BC ratio (2.7)
was recorded from the treatment comprises of NPK (60:60:60
kg/ha) + vermicompost (5t/ha) + lime followed by NPK
(60:60:60 kg/ha) + pig manure (10t/ha) + lime. Hence,
application of lime and vermicompost with fertilizers could
be a suitable INM practices to get the maximum output in
terms of yield and quality.
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