The Effect of Mushroom Waste Compost and Defoliation on the Growth and Yield of Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench)

Saifullah, Marai Rahmawati, Erida Nurahmi

2018

Abstract

Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench), better known as Arabic bean or lady's finger, is a crop that was introduced as a new vegetable crop in Indonesia. The use of compost is expected to improve productivity, and compost used in this study was made from straw waste of mushroom media. This study aims to determine the effect of compost doses and defoliation on the growth and yield of okra plants and the interaction between those two factors. This research was conducted from May to September 2017 at Experimental Garden and Physiology Laboratory of Agricultural Faculty, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh. This research used a factorial randomized block design with two treatments, compost doses consist of 4 levels (0, 10, 20 and 30 ton ha-1) and defoliation consists of 2 levels (with and without defoliation). Parameters observed included plant height, stem diameter, wet cropping weight, number of fruits per plant, fruit weight per plant, and harvest index. The result of this research showed that the compost doses had a very significant effect on wet cropping weight and had significant effect on stem diameter at 60 Day After Planting (DAP) while the other parameters had no effect. The best compost dose on growth and yield is 30 tons ha-1 on growth and yield of okra crops. The defoliation treatment has no significant effect on all growth and yields parameters of okra crop. There was an interaction between defoliation and compost dose 30 tons ha-1 on stem diameter at 30 DAP.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Saifullah., Rahmawati M. and Nurahmi E. (2018). The Effect of Mushroom Waste Compost and Defoliation on the Growth and Yield of Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench). In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST, ISBN 978-989-758-496-1, pages 408-414. DOI: 10.5220/0010043804080414

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icest18,
author={Saifullah and Marai Rahmawati and Erida Nurahmi},
title={The Effect of Mushroom Waste Compost and Defoliation on the Growth and Yield of Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench)},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST,},
year={2018},
pages={408-414},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010043804080414},
isbn={978-989-758-496-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST,
TI - The Effect of Mushroom Waste Compost and Defoliation on the Growth and Yield of Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench)
SN - 978-989-758-496-1
AU - Saifullah.
AU - Rahmawati M.
AU - Nurahmi E.
PY - 2018
SP - 408
EP - 414
DO - 10.5220/0010043804080414