COMBINE APPLICATION OF NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM FOR IMPROVING GARLIC PRODUCTIVITY

Garlic (Allium sativum) known for its medicinal values, is an important vegetable in the family Alliaceae.High yield of garlic depends on balance use of fertilizer while existing fertilizer use of farmers is belowrecommended level and hence appropriate fertilizer management is the major limited factor accounted forlower productivity of garlic. This experiment has been carried out in randomized complete block design withaim to find out the balance dose of NPK fertilizer kg ha-1i.e. 90:90:75, 100:100:120, 60:60:45 and controltreatment for garlic. Significant effect of leaf area, bulb weight and yield has been recorded over controltreatment while plant height, number of leaf plant-1, stem diameter, number of cloves bulb-1 and single cloveweight were not affected by fertilizer application. It is concluded that application of NPK at rate of 90:90:75kg ha-1increased yield by 33 % over control under agro-ecological condition of Swat Mingora.