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Enhancing the Productivity of Annual Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam. ) var. PKM 1 through High Density Planting and Fertigation Techniques

Volume : 103
Issue: Oct-dec
Pages: 383 - 388
Published: April 30, 2023
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Abstract


Experiments on high density planting and fertigation in annual moringa PKM 1 were conducted at Horticultural College and Research Institute, Periyakulam during 2008 – 2012. Among the twenty four treatment combinations evaluated, adopting high density planting system with a spacing of 1.5 × 1.0 m with two plants per hill and maintaining the plant population of 13,333 ha-1along with application of 1352345 g of NPK pit -1 recorded the highest yield of 114.25 tonnes ha-1and BC ratio of 4.96 when compared to control which recorded the yield of 28.63 tonnes ha-1and BC ratio of 1.72.

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383 - 388
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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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Annual Moringa High density planting Fertigation and Productivity.
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