Response of seasoned pressmud, poultry manure, Zinc sulphate and Borax on yield attributes and uptake in Brinjal fruit
Anindita Majumder, *D. Venkatakrishnan and K. Dhanasekaran
Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar-608 002 (India) *Corresponding author email: v.mahemasree@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Brinjal is one of the widely grown vegetable with high nutritive value responsive to pressmud, poultry manure, ZnSO4 and Borax application in soil. With this background the pot experiment were carried out at Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Annamalai University to evaluate the effect of seasoned pressmud, poultry manure, ZnSO4 and boron in two different salts (Neutral and coastal saline soil). The treatments include 100% RDF, 75% RDF with Poultry Manure, Seasoned Pressmud soil application @ 6.25 t ha-1 and 25 t ha-1 ZnSO4 and Borax soil application @ 25 kg ha-1 and 10 kg ha-1, Foliar spray ZnSO4 @ 0.5% and boron @ 0.25%. There were 13 treatment combination in FCRD with 3 replications. Among the treatments highest no. of fruits (24.62), fruit weight (42.1 g pot-1), fruit yield (10.36.5g pot-1), plant yield (602.3 g pot-1), fruit dry weight (75 g pot-1), fruit NPK uptake (1.9, 0.3136, 2.1 g pot-1), Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, B uptake (3.701, 3.369, 1.839, 1.449, 6.692 g pot-1) were registered in treatment (S1T10) receiving Seasoned Pressmud @ 25 kg ha-1 + ZnSO4 @ 25 kg ha-1 + Borax @ 10 kg ha-1 in neutral soil.