STUDIES ON THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIC FERTILIZERS ON THE GROWTH AND SOME BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF CHILLI (CAPSICUM ANNUM L. VAR)

Abstract

A pot culture experiment was conducted in botanical garden of Aska Science College campus to study the
influence of different organic fertilizers on the growth parameters and bimolecular contents of Chilli plant. The
results revealed that the vegetative growth viz: shoot length, root length, shoot weight and root weight of plants
were increased 37.05%,49.69%,35.75% and 51.21% respectively in vermicompost treatment compared with
control. Degree of influence was more in vermicompost treatment followed by cow dung compost and leaf
compost. The similar trend of results were also noticed in chlorophyll, carbohydrate and protein content of 45
day’s old chilli plants. Vermicompost treatment plants were showed 43.58%, 41.26%, 42.46% increase of
chlorophyll, carbohydrate and protein contents respectively over control. Among organic fertilizers, vermicompost
showed significantly higher vegetative growth and bimolecular content. The pot experimental studies suggest the
possibility of using vermicompost as source for crop improvement.