Response of french bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to organic manure, vermicompost and biofertilizers on growth parameters and yield

Abstract

: A field experiment was conducted at farmer's field during Rabi season of 2011-12 in Jorhat district to study the effect of different combinations of organic sources of nutrients viz., vermicompost, FYM, rock phosphate along with bio-fertilizer on different growth parameters, yield and profitability of French bean cultivar Arka Anoop. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with four treatments and five replications. In this investigation, the results revealed that application of vermicompost + FYM + Rhizobium + rock phosphate (T 2 ) significantly increased the germination percentage (87%), growth parameters and yield of the crop viz., plant height (37.50 cm after 60 days of sowing), number of branches plant -1 (6.48 after 60 days of sowing), green pod length (12.16 cm), green pod number plant -1 (20), green pod weight (300.05 g plant -1 ), dry weight of plant (18.74 g), number of seeds pod -1 (6.08) than the remaining three treatments. There was no significant difference in days to 50 per cent flowering among different treatments. However, nodulation was maximum in the treatment T 4 (41.88) and minimum in T 1 (38.20) . Nodules plant -1 in the treatment combinations T 2 and T 3 were at par. Highest yield (14 t ha -1 ) with maximum benefit : cost ratio (3.35:1) was obtained in the treatment combination T 2 and the lowest (7.00 t ha -1 ) was obtained in the treatment T 1 with minimum benefit : cost ratio (2.50:1). Though the yield was higher in the treatment T 3 than T 4 , yet the benefit : cost ratio was more in the treatment T 4 . It may be due to high cost of vermicompost than FYM.KEY WORDS : Vermicompost, FYM, Rhizobium, Growth, Yield, French bean HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE : Sarma, I., Phukon, M., Borgohain, R., Goswami, J. and Neog, M. (2014). Response of french bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to organic manure, vermicompost and bio-fertilizers on growth parameters and yield. Asian J. Hort., 9(2) : 386-389.

Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Growth, Yield and Quality of French Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) c.v. Pant Anupama under Valley Conditions of Dehradun

“…El-Bassiony et al, (2010), Sarmaet al, (2014 and Zahida et al, (2016) The increase in yield attributes might have been due to increased availability of NPK, higher total dry matter production and more vegetative growth resulting in better development of yield attributes and higher seed yield with application of heavy inorganic fertilization. Prabhakar et al, (2011), Sarma et al, (2014 and Meena et al, (2018) and Sharma et al, (2017) found in their research that the yield and yield components were significantly increased by the application of chemicals and bio-regulators.…”

Bio-effectiveness of Sabuj Gold as Organic Manure on Cabbage, Cauliflower and French Bean

“…those are directly involved with the improvement of yield and quality [13]. These finding of the positive effect of the organic supplement on crop production conformed with Thakur et al [14], Sharma et al [15], Selim et al [16], Simarmata et al [17], Nurhidayatia et al [18], Islam et al [19], Jesu [20], Ranjit et al [21], Sarma et al [22], Farahzety and Aishah [23], Prabhakar et al [24] and Singh et al [25].…”

Development of organic nutrients management system for profitable and soil-supportive French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) farming in North Eastern Himalayas, India

“…Organic nutrient management is considered an important activity, as it helps to enhance the growth and productivity of the French bean crop and to improve the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil (Singh et al, 2018). In French beans, instead of a single source of nutrients, applying different organic sources of nutrients in an integrated manner has been shown to increase crop productivity and improve soil health (Sharma et al, 2014;Singh et al, 2016). The constant supply of nutrients through organic sources into the active nutrients pool of soils developed a vigorous root system, resulting in the better growth and development of plants and better diversion of photosynthates from the source to sink; thus, the combined use of organic sources might be much more advantageous for healthy growth and timely flowering in crops (Aziz et al, 2019;Ghani et al, 2022b).…”

“…The integrated supply of the recommended nitrogen dose through FYM, MC, and VC (FYM 33% + MC 33% + VC 33% RDN) increased the plant height and duration of days to 50% flowering compared to single source. The integration of vermicompost, FYM, rock phosphate, and Rhizobium facilitates the adequate nutrient supply to French bean, resulting in better crop growth (Sharma et al, 2014). In contrast, the significantly poor French bean growth under the suboptimal nutritional treatment may have been because the root system might not have been active for efficient nutrient uptake during the period of active crop growth and development stages, resulting in reduced plant height and the crop reaching an early flowering stage (Guo et al, 2019).…”