Influence of Different Organic Manures and Inorganic Fertilizers on Vegetative Growth of Turnip (Brassica rapa L.) cv Purple Top White Globe
Gyanendra Singh *
Department of Horticulture, NAI, SHUATS, Prayagraj, (Uttar Pradesh), India.
Vipin Masih Prasad
Department of Horticulture, NAI, SHUATS, Prayagraj, (Uttar Pradesh), India.
Vijay Bahadur
Department of Horticulture, NAI, SHUATS, Prayagraj, (Uttar Pradesh), India.
Nikhil Vikram Singh
Department of Horticulture, NAI, SHUATS, Prayagraj, (Uttar Pradesh), India.
Netra Pal Yadav
Department of Horticulture, NAI, SHUATS, Prayagraj, (Uttar Pradesh), India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Block Design (RBD) with 17 treatment along with combinations of organic manure and inorganic fertilizer including control and each treatment replicated thrice. The turnip (Brassica rapa L.) crop in Brassicaceae family with Purple Top White Globe variety. In this study the results revealed that the application of T12 (50% NPK + 50% N through Poultry manure) significantly influenced most of the characteristics and recorded the highest values of plant height (58.94 cm, 59.85cm and 59.40 cm), number of leaves per plant (19.24, 21.03 and 20.14), leaf length (52.80 cm, 55.59 cm and 54.20 cm), leaf width (20.51 cm, 22.16cm and 21.34 cm), fresh weight of leaves (247.14, 250.84 and 248.99 g/plant) and dry weight of leaves (20.08, 22.01 and 21.05 g/plant) for the year 2018-19, 2019-20 and as pooled data respectively.
Keywords: Organic manure, inorganic fertilizers, vegetative growth, turnip