A.M. Ananda Kumara*, M. A. J. Sri Kirubashinia, R. Rakkimuthua, P. Sathishkumara & K. Sankari Meenab
aP.G. and Research Department of Botany, Nallamuthu Gounder Mahalingam College, Pollachi,Tamil Nadu, India
bDivision of Crop Protection, ICAR-IIOR, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Received : 20th December, 2023 ; Revised : 20th January, 2024
DOI:-https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14246025
Abstract– The use or making of foliar supplement or sprays more often prepared using chemicals was followed in modern agriculture. In contrary, the present study was designed to prepare foliar consortia from the daily kitchen domestic wastes collected in day-to-day life. The wastes are promising bio resource with potentially rich important nutritional and growth enhancing component. The study clearly suggests that foliar consortia may supplemented either individually or in a combined forms will enhance the growth of crops to a considerable level. To evaluate the efficacy of prepared, processed foliar consortia treated aerially on some important crops like monocots Allium cepa, Allium sativum, and Dicots, Trigonella foenum- graecum, Vigna radiata and evaluated through various parameters like plant height, No. of leaves per plant, petiole length, Shoot length, Root length, leaf surface area, No. of roots per plant, and proximate analysis of estimation of chlorophyll, carbohydrates, proteins, total free amino acids. The study clearly suggests that prepared foliar consortia promote the growth- and growthrelated components on the study plants at all levels. The crops sprayed with consortia at definite ratio at definite intervals were evaluated for its various parameters. Positively certain parameters have highly affected by the foliar application. Out of 4 different concentrations many of the treated crops showed the notable changes on morphological and biochemical analysis. The observed and evaluated results were tabulated.
Key words: Foliar application, Carbohydrate, Amino acids, Root length, proximate analysis.
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