Abstracts |
An experiment was conducted during the summer seasons of 2002 and 2003, in Pantnagar, Uttaranchal, India, to evaluate the effects of different nutrient sources, i.e. NPK, farmyard manure (FYM), poultry manure (PM), Azotobacter, phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB), vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM), neem cake, and pea straw, applied in various combinations, on the third crop of tomato in a okra-pea-tomato cropping system. Data were recorded for plant height, leaf area, number of primary branches, days to first harvest, number of fruits per plant, fruit yield per plant, number of locules, average fruit weight, and fruit yield per hectare. The highest yield was obtained in the treatment with PSB + 75% P and full doses of N and K through fertilizers (220.09 q/ha), followed by the treatment with the recommended dose of NPK through fertilizers and pea straw (213.14 q/ha). |