Influence of Jatropha oil cake as organic manure on yield of Chillies
Автор:K. Vinoth Kumar Год: 2014 Издание:LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 76 ISBN: 9783659256530 This book is covering the influence of jatropha oil cakes as concentrated organic manure on vegetable crop green chillies. Organic materials such as vermicompost, poultry manure, oilcakes,, green manures and crop residues can substitute inorganic fertilizers to maintain productivity and environmental quality. Oil cakes are concentrated organic manures. After the oil is extracted from oil seeds, the remaining solid portion is dried as cake and as organic manure. Jatropha cake one of the non edible oil cake serve as a good source of organic manure especially for horticultural crops, as these contain high amount of plant nutrients. The jatropha oil cake cannot be used as animal feed, because of its toxic principles or antifactors and hence can be used as organic manure. Combined application of organic and inorganics manures resulted better crop growth and quality parameters in green chillies. Remarkably improvement in soil health (fertility) was also observed. Therefore, application of...
