Vol. 6 (6) : November-December 2015 issue
Green Farming Vol. 6 (6) : 1336-1339 ; November-December, 2015
Impact of mulching and sub soil biomassing on quality of mulberry leaf by using local perennial tree leaves
SHIVANANDA S. ADMANI1, GEETHA DEVI T.2, HARISH BABU S.3 and VASUDHA PRABHAKAR K.4*
Department of Sericulture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore - 560 065 (Karnataka)
Designation : 1P.G. Student, 2Assoc. Prof., 3,4Ph.D. Scholar *(vasuoct11@gmail.com)
Subject : Sericulture
Paper No. : P-3112
Total Pages : 4
Received : 02 January 2015
Revised accepted : 16 October 2015
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Citation :
SHIVANANDA S. ADMANI, GEETHA DEVI T., HARISH BABU S. and VASUDHA PRABHAKAR K. 2015. Impact of mulching and sub soil biomassing on quality of mulberry leaf by using local perennial tree leaves. Green Farming Vol. 6 (6) : 1336-1339 ; November-December, 2015
ABSTRACT
A study on mulching and subsoil biomassing with seven locally available perennial tree leaves and twigs viz., glyricidea (Glyricidea maculate), neem (Azadirachta indica), pongamia (Pongamia pinnata), subabhul (Leucaena leucocephala), simoruba (Simaruba glauca) and left over mulberry leaves and twigs was conducted in rainfed M5 mulberry garden at U.A.S, G.K.V.K, Bangalore during 2011 in red sandy loam soil the mulberry leaf. All treatments recorded significantly higher leaf quality than the control plot. Among the different treatments the leaf quality viz., leaf moisture content (72.95 %), chlorophyll 'a' (1.92 mg/g), chlorophyll 'b' (0.93 mg/g), total chlorophyll contents (2.67 mg/g), crude protein content (15.96 %), total soluble protein (25.41%) and total soluble sugar (13.52 %) of mulberry leaves was significantly higher with subabul leaves and twigs treated plot. Apart from this the mulberry leaves contains significantly higher primary and secondary nutrients viz., nitrogen (2.64%), phosphorous (0.46%) and potassium (2.53%), calcium (2.65 %), magnesium (0.39%) and sulphur (0.31%) in subabul treatment. This study revealed that existing environmental constraints like water scarcity and low fertility status occurring under rainfed area can be solved by making use of various specific qualities of locally available perennial trees.
Key words :
Leaf quality, Mulching, Perennial tree leaves, Subsoil biomassing, Tree species, Trenching.