RESPONSE OF VERMICOMPOST AND FERTILITY LEVELS ON GROWTH, YIELD, AND QUALITY OF INDIAN MUSTARD [BRASSICA JUNCEA (L.) CZERN AND COSSON.]Shivam Verma, Deen Dayal Yadav, Shikhar Verma, Jaykar Singh, Avinash Kumar Rai, Vineet Dheer and Barinderjit SinghAbstract A field experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2019-20 at the Student Instructional Farm to find the effect of vermicompost and fertility levels on growth, yield and quality of Mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern and Cosson.]â. The experiment was laid out randomly in a split plot design with three replications having vermicompost viz., V1 (Control), V2 (2 tonnes ha-1), V3 (4 tonnes ha-1), V4 (6 tonnes ha-1) were allotted in main plots where, F1 (Control), F2 50% RDF (60:30:30 kg ha-1 NPK), F3 75% RDF (90:45:45 kg ha-1 NPK), F4 100% RDF (120:60:60 kg ha-1 NPK) allotted in sub plots. Thus total sixteen treatment combinations were replicated thrice. The result showed that among the vermicompost application of 6 tonnes ha-1 gave significantly higher growth attributes, seed yield (2188 kg ha-1), and quality parameters, i.e. Oil content (38.717%), Oil yield (850.655 kg ha-1), Protein content (21.732 %), Protein yield (484.585 kg ha-1) which was higher over control. Among the different fertility levels application of 100% RDF gave significantly higher, growth attributes, seed yield (2354.0 kg ha-1), and quality parameters, i.e. Oil content (39.852%), Oil yield (938.520kg ha-1), Protein content (24.267%), Protein yield (572.142kg ha-1)in compare to control treatment. However the interaction effect was non-significant. |