COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIFFERENT INTEGRATED NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT ON OKRA (ABELMOSCHUS ESCULENTUS (L.) MOENCH) CV. ARKA ANAMIKA UNDER TERAI ZONE OF WEST BENGALUjyol Rai, Suchand Datta, Safal Rai, Sangay Golay and Rohini PradhanAbstract Nutrient management through integration of different organic and inorganic fertilizers provide a superior result than using each component separately. Thus, to investigate the outcome of integrated nutrient management in okra cv. Arka Anamika, an experiment was conducted at the experimental field of Department of Vegetable and Spice Crops, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Cooch Behar, West Bengal during Kharif season of 2019. The 15 integrated treatment combinations were arranged in Randomised Block Design with 3 replications where various growth and yield parameters were observed. Growth attributing characters like days to 50% flowering commenced early (40.33) in treatment T6 whilst, plant height (76.46 cm at first harvest and 141.19 cm at last harvest), stem girth (14.17 mm) and number of primary branches (3.47) was observed to be influenced positively by the treatment T5. As regards to the yield parameters, concurrently all yield contributing parameters like length of pod (11.46 cm), width of pod (14.60 mm), individual fresh weight of pod (14.98 g), number of pods (20.92), fresh yield per plant (331.96 g) and fresh yield per hectare (23.42 t ha-1) showed maximal values in the plants which received the treatment T5. While treatment T15 (Control) was found to be less benignant towards the growth and yield of okra. Presumably, these observation has lead to the undisputed conclusion that T5 (75% Recommended Dose of Fertilizer + 25% Recommended Dose of Nitrogen through Vermicompost + Biofertilizer) might have a salutary effect on okra cv. Arka Anamika under the terai region of West Bengal. |