Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper


Vol.30, Issue 4, 2024

Page Number: 1695-1698

EFFECT OF ORGANIC NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF ONION

Rajesh Meena, Virendra Singh, R.A. Kaushik, S.K. Sharma, H.K. Jain, R.N. Bunker and Jagdeesh Prasad Rathore

Abstract

This investigation was conducted at Sericulture Farm, Department of Horticulture, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT-Udaipur (Raj.) during Rabi season 2020-21 and 2021-22. The experiment comprised of 12 treatments with three replications were conducted over a two-year period, specifically from 2020-21 to 2021-22. Among the various organic treatments, T7 (50% of RDN through FYM + 50% of RDN through Neem cake + Panchagavya spray @ 3% + Vermiwash spray @ 5% at 30, 50 & 70 DAT + Jeevamrut @ 500 L ha-1 six times at 20 days intervals) was superior in respect to neck diameter at harvest (0.89 & 0.93 cm), diameter of bulb (5.43 & 5.81 cm), Average bulb weight (68.09 & 70.02 g), total soluble solid (16.77 & 17.03 %), pungency (5.95 & 6.24 ?mol/g), bulb shape index (0.86 & 0.87) and dry matter content (15.70 & 15.91 %) content as compared to other treatments.