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Research Article | Open Access | Peer Review

UTILISATION OF COIR PITH AS MANURE FOR GROUNDNUT

Volume : 73
Issue: Aug-aug
Pages: 447 - 449
Published: September 25, 2023
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Abstract


A field experiment was carried out to evaluate the usefulness of Coir Pith (a waste from the coconut husk in coir fibre industry) as manure for groundnut crop in sandy loam soils of Agricultural Research Station, Allarnagar. Groundnut. CO 1, was sown with 12 treatments consisting of, absolute control, and NPK alone and in combination with raw coir pith and coir pith inoculated with Pleurotus sp, a fungs, at 12.5 t/ha. The results revealed a significant increase in groundnut pod yield to the combined application of the inoculated coir pith and NPK.

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447 - 449
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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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