Production of Farm Waste Compost and Its Utilization for Yield Improvement of Capsicum grossum Willd. (Sweet pepper)

Abstract

Investigation of the effects of rice straw composts on Capsicum grossum Willd. (sweet pepper) was conducted in Taungoo University Campus. Composting process was prepared from July, 2011 to February, 2012 and cultivation was carried out in March, 2012. Bin method was used in composting and rice straw waste was mixed with cowdung, with vermicompost and with legume residue in a ratio of 10:1 in weight-wise respectively. Composting periods was taken 210 days and the resting time was 23 days. Five treatments with three replicates were set up in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). The optimum ranges of C/N ratio; 10.24 and 10.42 were observed in T1 (compost of rice straw waste+ cowdung) and T4 (compost of pure rice straw waste). Total nitrogen content of T4 was the highest, 1.69%. T1 (compost of rice straw waste+ cowdung) had the maximum mean plant height (22.99 cm), largest number of leaves (18.78), biggest leaf area (28.13 cm2) and highest yield (121.58 g/ plant)