The effects of organic and inorganic fertilizers on the performance of carrot were studied in
Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, during the rabi of 2003-04. The
treatments consisted of vermicompost (10 t/ha), neem cake (4 t/ha), castor bean cake (4 t/ha)
and FYM [farmyard manure](15 t/ha), singly or in combination with 50% of the recommended
NPK fertilizer rates (RDNPK; 50: 30: 40 kg/ha, respectively), and 50 or 100% RDNPK. Castor
cake+ 50% RDNPK and 100% RDNPK resulted in the greatest plant height (30.23 and …

An investigation was conducted at Horticulture Garden of Chandra Shekhar Azad University
of Agriculture and Technology during Rabi season of 2016-17 to study the effects of organic
manures and inorganic fertilizers on growth, yield and its attributing traits in garlic. Ten
treatments were compared in a Randomized Block Design with three replications. Among
the different treatments, the treatment T1 (application of 100% RDF-Recommended Dose of
Fertilizer) recorded the maximum plant height (70.6 cm), plant diameter (0.84 cm) and length …