author(s)
Jaspal Singh Dodiya, AS Jodha, Damini Visen, Kalpan Yadav, Surbhi Tyagi, Vishal Pareek, Tarun Shrimali, Neeraj Dhabhai and Shankar Lal Kumawat

abstract

An experiment was conducted entitled “Effect of Organic Manures and Liquid Consortia on Growth, Yield and Quality of Onion (Allium cepa L.)” during rabi, 2024-25 at Instructional Farm, School of Agricultural Sciences, Dabok, Udaipur. The experiment comprised of ten treatments using organic manures and liquid consortia either alone or in combinations which were replicated thrice in randomized block design. Onion variety N-53 was used as a test crop.

The results revealed that among all treatments T₈ (50% RDN through Poultry manure + 50% RDN through Vermicompost + Liquid Consortia) was found to significantly increase growth, yield attributes, yield, quality parameters, as well as economics of onion. It was found that maximum value of growth parameters viz., plant height (58.67 cm), leaf length (45.23 cm), number of leaves plant^-1 (11.85), neck thickness (11.85 mm), yield attributes and yield viz., bulb diameter (6.24 cm), fresh bulb weight (92.75 g), yield plot^-1 (9.85 kg), yield ha^-1 (45.60 t ha^-1) were observed with the application of T₈ (50% RDN through Poultry manure + 50% RDN through Vermicompost + Liquid Consortia). Further it was noted that maximum values of quality parameters viz., TSS (13.45 °Brix), chlorophyll content in leaf (65.42 mg 100 g^-1), were found with treatment T₈ (50% RDN through Poultry manure + 50% RDN through Vermicompost + Liquid Consortia). Maximum net return (₹682,500 ha^-1) and B-C ratio (3.85) were also obtained with T₈ (50% RDN through Poultry manure + 50% RDN through Vermicompost + Liquid Consortia).