Abstract:
An experiment was carried out at the Horticulture Farm, Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka during the period from November 2014 to
February 2015 to evaluate the effect of vermicompost on growth and yield of
potato. The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design
with three replications. The experiment consisted of two factors viz., three
varieties (V
1
= Diamant, V
2
= Cardinal and V
= Lady Rosetta) and four levels of
vermicompost (T
0
= Control, T
1
iii
3
= Vermicompost at 6 t ha
-1
, T
= Vermicompost
at 8 t ha
-1
and T
3
= Vermicompost at 10 t ha
-1
2
). Results revealed that variety and
vermicompost and also their interaction had significant effect on all growth
parameters and yield contributing characters. In case of variety, and
vermicompost the highest tuber yield (24.64 t ha
-1
) and (26.30 t ha
) were
found from V
1
and T
respectively. In terms of combined effect the highest
number of tuber hill
-1
2
(8.1), weight of tuber hill
-1
-1
(343.3 g), tuber weight plot
(6.18 kg), dry weight of 100 g tuber (23.2 g) and the highest tuber weight ha
(27.47 t) were obtained from V
1
T
. So, it can be concluded that vermicompost
8 t ha
-1
can be used as organic manure.
