| dc.description.abstract | An experiment was conducted in the research field of the Department of Crop
Physiology and Ecology, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University,
Dinajpur, during September, 2017 to March, 2018 to find out the effect of poultry litter
based composts on the growth, yield and yield contributing attributes of tomato. The
experiment was laid out in a two factor Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD)
with three replications. Two tomato varieties, namely BARI Tomato 4 (V1) and Ratan
(V2) with seven fertilizations i.e. C0= Control, C1= 20 t ha-1
compost (produced from
poultry litter and ash), C2= 30 t ha-1
compost (produced from poultry litter and ash), C3=
20 t ha-1
compost (produced from poultry litter and saw dust), C4= 30 t ha-1
compost
(produced from poultry litter and saw dust), C5= 20 t ha-1
compost (produced from
poultry litter with kitchen waste and cow dung) and C6= 30 t ha-1 1
compost (produced
from poultry litter with kitchen waste and cow dung). Data were collected on plant
height, number of leaf plant-1
, number of branches plant-1
, days to 50% flowering, days
to 50% fruit setting, number of fruit plant-1
, diameter of fruit (cm), length of fruit (cm),
stem diameter (cm) and yield (t ha-1
). Among the studied variety, BARI Tomato 4
performed better regarding the compost treatment C5 (20 t ha-1
compost produced from
poultry litter with kitchen waste and cow dung) produced higher yield than the other
compost treatments. Though the application of compost increases the number and
quantity of the studied traits, but the treatment combination V1C5 (BARI Tomato 4 with
20 t ha-1
, compost produced from poultry litter with kitchen waste and cow dung)
produced the highest yield (46.27 t ha-1
). | en_US |
