Effect of biofertilizers and micronutrients on growth andyield of garlic (Allium sativum L.) var. ‘G-282’

A field experiment was conducted to study the “Effect of biofertilizes and micronutrients on growth and yield of garlic (Alium sativum L.) var. G-282” during Rabi season of the year 2012–13 at Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar. The experiment consist of 12 treatments, viz., three bioferilizers (control, PSB, Azotobacter) in combination with four level of micronutrients (control, ZnSO4 @ 0.4%, Boric acid @ 0.2% and CuSO4 @ 0.05%) was laid out in simple RBD with three replications. The treatment T5 (PSB + ZnSO4 @ 0.4%) was recorded maximum plant height at 60 days and 130 days after sowing (48.83 cm and 77.30 cm), number of leaves/plant at 60 days and 130 days after sowing (7.5 and 14.80), leaf length (39.27 cm) and neck thickness (0.92 cm), total chlorophyll both at 60 and 90 DAS (0.43 and 0.78 mg/g) then over control. The yield characters of bulb like maximum fresh weight of bulb (34.37 g), diameter of bulb (5.49 cm), number of cloves per bulb (30.67), fresh weight of 50 cloves (86.67 g), dry weight of 50 cloves (42.50 g), yield per plot (5.15 kg plot−1) and yield of bulb per hectare (229.03 q ha−1). However, it was statistically at par T6, T9 and T1 with T5.