National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A field experiment was conducted at Vegetable Experimental Field, SKUAST- K Shalimar during Rabi season 2016-17 to evaluate the effect of organic manures and biofertilizers on quality of spinach beet. The experiment was laid out in RCBD with nine treatment combinations replicated three times. The treatments comprised of organic manures viz., farm yard manure, sheep manure, vermicompost, mustard cake and two types of bio-fertilizers namely Azospirillum and PSB including RFD (recommended fertilizer dose) as control. Results revealed that quality parameters like dry matter content (15.92, 16.47 and 29.26), ascorbic acid content (202.52, 166.10 and 155.12 mg 100 g-1), crude fibre content (9.50, 8.86 and 7.76 %) and leaf chlorophyll content (3.25, 0.98 and 0.76 mg g-1) were highest with the treatment T6 (vermicompost @ 3 tonnes ha-1 + biofertilizers @ 5 kg ha-1). Lowest nitrate content (447.33, 348.33 and 268.33 mg kg-1) in leaves were found with the treatment T7 (FYM @ 12.0 t ha-1 + biofertilizers @ 5 kg ha-1) and was statistically at par (453.00, 355.39 and 270.33 mg kg-1) with treatment T6 (vermicompost @ 3 tonnes ha-1 + biofertilizers @ 5 kg ha-1). Highest leaf moisture content (91.97, 90.23 and 87.57 %) was registered where mustard cake @ 1.2 t ha-1 was applied.The highest benefit cost ratio (B:C) of spinach beet (3.84) was also obtained with the application of vermicompost @ 3 tonnes ha-1 + biofertilizers @ 5 kg ha-1.
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