ABSTRACT
A field experiment was conducted at the Department of Horticulture, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Science, Allahabad, 350India during 2014–2015 rabi season. The experiment was carried out in a randomized block design with 13 treatments in three replications on different levels of inorganic and organic fertilizers (RDF 75%, 50%, 25%) with different sources; the results revealed that maximum plant height (104.39 cm), number of leaves (8.53), number of shoots per corm (2.73), days to spike initiation(53.93 days), days for opening of first florets (70.00), diameter of the florets (9.38 cm), length of spikes (93.31 cm), number of florets per spike (20.60), first floret durability (9.53 days), number of spike per plant (2.73), number of spike per hectare (150706.47), number of corm per plant (3.53), number of corm per hectare (246861.40), and benefit:cost ratio (2.35:1) were obtained for treatment T 11(75% RDF + 25% vermicom-post) under Allahabad agro-climatic conditions.
