Influence of Vegetable and Fruit Wastes Vermicompost on the Growth and Yield of Black Gram (Vigna mungo L.)

Abstract

Background: Composting is the process of breaking down of organic matter using living organisms which can be used as manure for soil conditioning. Vermicomposting is the rapid decomposition of biowastes using earthworm species which will enhance the growth and yield of plants. Methods: The vermicomposting of vegetable and fruit wastes was carried out during summer season (May-July) and by using the vermicompost a pot culture experiment was conducted in black gram for three months from August to October, 2019. The treatments consist of combinations of vermicomposted wastes and cowdung along with bioinoculants, Soil served as control. The biometric parameters such as root length, shoot length, fresh weight and dry weight on 15, 35, 55 DAS and yield characters like number of pods/plants, number of seeds/pods, pod length, weight of seed/pod, pod fresh weight and pod dry weight were recorded and statistically analysed. The present study has been attempted to convert the vegetables and fruit waste into compost as manure and analyse its effect on vegetative growth and yield parameters of Black gram (Vigna mungo L.). Result: The highest value of shoot length, root length, fresh weigh and dry weight were noted in fruit waste + cow dung + Pleurotus eous (APK1) + Trichoderma asperelloides + Eudrilus eugeniae on 15, 35 and 55 day after sowing (DAS) and the least was reported in control (only soil). The application of T8 treatment reported the highest yield characters which were followed by other treatments and control on 15, 35 and 55 DAS. The study concluded that T8 (F.W + cow dung + P. eous + T. asperelloides + Eudrilus eugeniae) is an effective biocompost for the growth and yield of black gram (Vigna mungo L.) which is eco-friendly.

Effect of Biofertilizer and Fertility Levels on Growth Characters of Mungbean under Mid Hills of Himachal Pradesh, India

“…This might be due to an increase in the number of branches plant -1 , which may be attributed to robust vegetative expansion, facilitated by the provision of nitrogen through fertilizers and inoculants, which ultimately increase the total branches. These discoveries align harmoniously with the earlier findings of Hussain et al [10], Charles et al [11] and Jat et al [12], as they, reported a substantial increase in the total number of branches with biofertilizer applications.…”

​Impact of Paddy and Coffee Husk as the Bio Compost and its Effect on the Growth and Yield of Black Gram [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper]

“…Shoot length increased gradually in the treatment 6 (11.8, 25.8 and 30.7 cm) followed by the treatment 3 (11.1, 25.2 and 29.1 cm) compared to the control (8.2, 18.6 and 24.9 cm). Similar results were correlated with Raihing and Vijayalakshmi, (2022) in black gram with the application of vegetable and fruit waste, shoot length was found to be more in treatment-8 (56.9, 62.1 and 71.5 cm) and root length in treatment 8 (14.5,17.2 and 18.5 cm).…”