Vol. 12, Issue 9 (2023)

Author(s):
Riya Vaishnav, KC Meena, IS Naruka, OP Singh, R Gallani, Ankit Pandey, SK Dviwedi and MK Tripathi

Abstract:
A field experiment of winter season was conducted during the year of 2020-21 to study the result of organic manure and biofertilizers on growth and yield of dill (Anethum graveolens L.). The eight treatment combinations of FYM, vermicompost and biofertilizers were tested in randomized block design and replicated three times. Organic manure and Biofertilizers significantly influenced growth and yield of dill. Significantly biological yield and grain yield with harvest index were observed under treatment FYM (5 ton/ha) + Vermicompost (2 ton/ha) + Azotobacter (3 kg /ha) + PSB (5 kg/ha). Findings suggested that application of biological fertilizers significantly increased grains performance, biological yield per plant, plant height, fresh weight, dry weight, umbels number per plant, number of grains per umbel. Result revealed that, significant maximum plant height (9.08, 70.49, and 150 cm), fresh weight (2.74, 147.13, 469.40 g plant^-1) and dry weight (0.41, 7.54, 85.87 g plant^-1) were verified with treatment T₇ on forty, eighty and one twenty days after sowing, correspondingly. Though, sooner germination (7.8 days), flowering (82.67 days), maturity (154.40 days), and higher umbels number (121.07 plant^-1), umbellets number (35.47), number of grains per umbel (642.10), grain yield (19.69 q ha^-1), biological yield (42.67 q ha^-1), harvest index (46.14%) and benefit cost ratio (2.34) were recorded with treatment T₇ while, they were lowest with untreated control.