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Impact of goat manure and fish meal on yields of green gram and radish in intercropping system

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Eastern University, Chenkalady, Sri Lanka
  • 2Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Eastern University, Chenkalady, Sri Lanka

Res. J. Agriculture & Forestry Sci., Volume 13, Issue (1), Pages 27-34, January,8 (2025)

Abstract

Sustainable crop production is foreseeable requirement with increasing world population. Intercropping is a good conception to effectively make use of the space and obtains more than one crop yields. Application of organic manures as a substitute of chemical fertilizers in intercropping system is an environmentally friendly to increase crop productivity. According to the above perceptions, experiment study was carried out to determine the effect of goat manure and fish meal on intercropping of green gram and radish. It was designed in a randomized complete block design with five treatments and four replicates. They were chemical fertilizers (T1), 10 t/ha goat manure alone (T2), 10 t/ha goat manure + 0.1 t/ha fish meal (T3), 15 t/ha goat manure (T4) and 15 t/ha goat manure + 0.1 t/ha fish meal (T5). The fresh and dry weights of leaves, stem, root, seeds and pods of green gram were weighed at 7th weeks. And also plant height, leaf area and pod length were taken. Fresh weights of leaves, tuber and whole plant parameters of radish were recorded. Results revealed that there were substantial differences in yields of green gram and radish among the treatments. Highest seed yield for green gram was recorded as 2654.73 kg/ha that was obtained in T5. Similarly, T5 produced highest yield for radish and that was 39,428.33 kg/ha. Therefore, the study clearly shows that there is a positive effect of goat manure and fishmeal application in green gram crop intercropped with Radish.

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