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Studies on the performance of arecanut (Areca catechu L.) seedlings to the nursery treatments

Volume : 92
Issue: Jan-mar
Pages: 106 - 113
Published: June 13, 2023
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Abstract


Studies on nursery treatments in arecanut showed that the seedlings performance differed significantly due to container size and pot mixture. In particular, the larger size container (25 x 15 cm) with pot mixture of soil sand+ Vesicular- Arbuscular Mycorrhizae (VAM) at 2:1:0.1 base produced vigourous seedlings followed by soil sand vermicompost at 2:1:1 mixture in nursery stage. It might be due to the better aeration in larger containers that facilitated easy root penetration and supply of adequate nutrients to the growing seedlings.

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106 - 113
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Arecanut Vigourous seedling Nursery mixture Container size.
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