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Production of Bio Fortified Vermicompost and its Efficacy Against Onion Basal Rot Disease Caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae

Production of Bio Fortified Vermicompost and its Efficacy Against Onion Basal Rot Disease Caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae

Kandiah Pakeerathan*, Konesalingam Jeyavithuyan, Aruchchunan Nirosha and Gunasingham Mikunthan

Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna, 44000, Ariviyal Nagar, Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka.

 
*Correspondence | Kandiah Pakeerathan, Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna, 44000, Ariviyal Nagar, Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka; Email: pakeerathank@univ.jfn.ac.lk 

Figure 1:
Organic matter content and organic carbon percentage of formulated bio-fortified compost.
Figure 2:
Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium percentage of formulated bio-fortified compost.
Figure 3:

Substrate effect on growth parameters of onion.

Figure 4:

Correlation between mean onion yield with C/N ratio of the produced compost.

Figure 5:

Correlation between mean onion yield loss versus Fusarium wilt disease severity.

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Sarhad Journal of Agriculture

March

Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, Vol.40, Iss. 1, Pages 01-262

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