Volume 15, Issue 57, 2026 (January – March)
Research Article
Influence of Recommended Fertilizer Dose and Sulphur on Yield, Post-Harvest Losses and Economics of Garlic (Allium sativum L.) under On-Farm Conditions
Kamal Kumar Pande, Raj Kumar, N K Singh, H. C. Joshi and Amit Kumar
Keywords: Dose of fertilizer, Sulphur, Yield, Post-harvest losses and Economics
DOI:10.37273/chesci.cs1720561103
Abstract
An on-farm assessment trial (OFT) entitled influence of Recommended Fertilizer Dose and Sulphur on Yield, Post-Harvest Losses and Economics of Garlic (Allium sativum L.) under On-Farm Conditions was conducted by KVK (ICAR-VPKAS)- Bageshwar, Kafligair, Uttarakhand in village Baidibagar situated at 29.7236° latitude and 79.7914° longitude in district Bageshwar, Uttarakhand, India. Three treatments were tested with fifteen replications in RBD during Rabi season of 2024-25. It was found that recommended dose of fertilizer (RDF) of NPK (100:60:60) along with sulphur 25 kg/ha in the form of bentolite sulphur resulted the maximum yield (99.16 q/ha), minimum post-harvest losses in terms of pooled physiological loss in weight (PLW) (21.29%) of three months storage period. Maximum net return (₹3, 80,560.0 per ha) as well as (B:C) Benefit : Cost (2.77) was recorded for T3, followed by T2, while the minimum net return (₹ 2, 50,400 per ha) and B: C (2.08) was estimated for T1.
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