GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF CHINESE CABBAGE AS INFLUENCED BY VERMICOMPOST

Abstract

An experiment was conducted in the Horticulture Farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from November 2019 to February 2020 to study the influence of vermicompost on growth, yield, and quality of Chinese cabbage. The experiment consisted of two factors: Factor A: Three cultivars viz; C : BARI Chinakopi 1, C 2 : Blues and C : Retasi; Factor B: Vermicompost (4 levels); VC 0 : Control (no vermicompost), VC xv

3 1 : 6 t/ha, VC 2 : 8 t/ha and VC : 10 t/ha. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. There were 12 treatment combinations. In the case of cultivars, Blues gave the highest marketable yield (66.38 t/ha) and BARI Chinakopi 1 gave the lowest (43.55 t/ha). For vermicompost levels, VC gave the highest (71.25 t/ha) marketable yield and the lowest (36.14 t/ha) from VC 3 . For interaction effect, cultivar Blues treated with vermicompost (10t/ha) (C 2 VC 3 0 ) gave the highest (83.55 t/ha) marketable yield and the lowest (30 t/ ha) from C 1 VC . The highest values were recorded for VitC (27.50 mg/100g), Beta carotene (156.83 ug/100g), Ca (72.16 mg/100g), Mg (11.23

mg/100g),

P (27 mg/100g), K (237.16 mg/100g), Fe (0.87 mg/100g) and Zn (0.21 mg/100g) were recorded from cultivar Blues (C 0 2 3 ). For vermicompost levels, VC gave the maximum amount of Vit-C (28.88 mg/100g), Beta carotene (189.33 ug/100g), Ca (72.66 mg/100g), Mg (11.79 mg/100g), P (26 mg/100g), K (230 mg/100g), Fe (0.63 mg/100g) and Zn (0.21 mg/100g). For interaction effect, cultivar Blues treated with 10t/ha vermicompost (C 2 VC ) gave the highest amount of Vit-C (32 mg/100g), Beta carotene (195 ug/100g),), Ca (74.66 mg/100g), Mg (12.24 mg/100g), P (28 mg/100g), K (249.66 mg/100g), Fe (0.95 mg/100g) and Zn (0.23 mg/100g). So it could be concluded that the cultivar Blues with 10 t/ha vermicompost (C 3 ) gave the desirable growth, yield and quality of Chinese cabbage.