Influence of Different Levels Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Growth and Yield of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)

Abstract

The global food demand of growing human population and need for eco-friendly strategy for sustainable soil-plant-microbes-environmental system currently a crucial challenge. In conventional farming for increasing the crop yield farmers are using huge amount of chemical fertilizer in the fields. Due to either over or imbalance use of chemical fertilizers in cultivation of crops, degraded the soil fertility and health of soil. Such farming is blamed for land degradation and environment pollution and adversely affecting the human health, plants and animals. Soil degradation contributes to low agricultural productivity. Organic amendments (OAs) have the potentials to reverse soil degradation processes by improving the soil's physical and chemical properties and consequently improve crop growth and yield performance An experiment was carried out during the winter season of 2021- 2022 to know the Effect of different levels of Vermicompost,Neam cake and fertilizer on soil health and yield of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) ”. The experiment was laid out in Randomised Block Design (RBD) with three replicates for each treatment. The fertilizer applied for the crop was  NPK and @ 120kg, ha-1, 80kg ha-1, 100 kgha-1, Vermicompost 6 and Neem cake 1.2 t h-1, respectively,  showed significant influence on the soil health of Potato . Based on the above research work, it is concluded that application of Vermicompost, Neam cake and fertilizer, treatment T9 [NPK 100% + VC @100% + Neem Cake @ 100% ha-1] was found more beneficial and significantly improved soil, and tuber yield of Potato grown under Allahabad Agro-climatic conditions.