Vol. 6, Issue 6 (2018)
Effect of organic formulations on growth of mulberry (Morus alba L.) at nursery stage
Author(s): Anita Kumari, Bharti, Sunita Devi, IK Thakur, Kritika Suman and Neeraj Sankhayan
Abstract: Indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides in modern agriculture resulted in the development of several problems such as pesticide resistant insects, resurgences of target and non-target pests, destruction of beneficial organism like honey bee, pollinators, parasites, and predators and pesticide residues in food and fodder. Crop + dairy is the predominant cultivating framework in the country practiced by over 70 % farm households. The abundant quantity of cattle excreta consisting of dung and urine is available at rural family. In spite of that only cow dung is utilized for manure and a significant amount of urine goes waste. Cattle urine is a good source of nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chlorite and sulphate. The influence of organic formulations has been well recognized on fruits and vegetables while such studies on fodder crops are rarely available. Mulberry is a high biomass producing fodder crop rich in protein content. Therefore keeping in view the importance of fodder crops the present study was undertaken. The treatments consist of cow urine decoction, cow urine, Jivamrit and sanjeevak at five different concentration along with control. Maximum height (150cm), leaf width (11.86cm) and leaf area (159.60cm2) were recorded for treatment T2 (urine) with concentration C2 (40%). Maximum diameter (12.07cm) and maximum number of branches (5) were recorded for treatment T1 (cow urine decoction) with concentration C2 (40%). Maximum number of leaves (29.67), root length (71.83cm) and leaf length (21.16cm) were recorded for treatment T3 (Jivamrit) with concentration C3 (60%).
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Anita Kumari, Bharti, Sunita Devi, IK Thakur, Kritika Suman, Neeraj Sankhayan. Effect of organic formulations on growth of mulberry (Morus alba L.) at nursery stage. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(6):974-978.
