<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language: HI" lang="EN-GB">Integrated use of animal manures along with inorganic fertilizers on soil available major and secondary nutrients in bhendi crop <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">(<i>Abelmoschus esculentus</i> L.)</span></span>

Abstract

<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:="" mangal;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" hi"="" lang="EN-GB">A field experiment was conducted in Agricultural college and Research Institute, Madurai, TamilNadu Agricultural university to evaluate integrated use of animal manures along with inorganic fertilizers on soil available major and secondary nutrients in bhendi crop<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>(Arka anamika) with organic sources like goat manure and pig manure combined with inorganic fertilizers on availability of soil available major and secondary<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>nutrients. There were ten treatment combinations replicated thrice in Randomized block design (RBD) in Maddukkur soil series (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Typic Haplustalf</i>). Thus result showed that the combined application of 50 per cent Recommended dose of fertilizers (RDF) + goat manure @ 6.5 t ha^-1at different stages of bhendi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">viz</i>., vegetative flowering, fruit and post harvesting stages was found superior and increased the soil available nutrients then other treatments, organic carbon (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">0.653%), available Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P) & Potassium (K) (216.1, 12.4 and 252.40<b> </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">kg ha^-1) and Calcium (Ca) & Magnesium (Mg) (0.138 & 0.280%) and lowest value registered in the control plot <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">viz</i>., organic carbon (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">0.435%), available N, P & K (183.8, 8.5 and 189.40<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> kg ha^-1) and Ca & Mg (0.109 &0.229%) respectively.</span></span></span></span></span>