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Residual Effect of Goat Manure and ExpertTM Fertilizer Treated With Proceeding Crop of Radish (Raphanussativus L.) On Succeeding Crop of Vegetable Cowpea (Vignauniguiculata L.)

Mohameth Saleem Mohameth Imthiyas, Thayamini H Seran

Abstract


This study was conducted to evaluate the residual effect of goat manure and ExpertTM fertilizer on growth and yield of vegetable cowpea (Vignauniguiculata L.) on sandy regosol. Immediately after harvesting of radish (Raphanussativus L.), vegetable cowpea was cultivated as succeeding crop without any disturbance to soil. A pot experiment was done in a complete randomized design consisting of five treatments with three replicates. At harvest, leaf area, number of pods per plant as well as dry weights of leaf, shoot, root and pods per plant were recorded and all recorded data were subjected to statistical analysis. This study revealed that significant differences were noted among the tested treatments in most of the parameters especially in number of pods and fresh weight of pods. The results revealed that number of pods and fresh weight of pods per plant were high in 1.5 kg/m2 goat manure and 45 g/m2 ExpertTM fertilizer treatment and followed by 1.0 kg/m2 goat manure and 40 g/m2 ExpertTM fertilizer treatment where 30 g/m2 expert fertilizer was applied as top dressing and remaining dose of expert fertilizer was done as basal application. It can be concluded that the residual effect of goat manure and expert fertilizer had better growth and yield performances than the control treatment.

Keywords


Biological yield, Compost, Marketable yield, Nodules, Residual effect.

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