Abstract

The problem of health hazards and high cost of chemical fertilizers in developing countries is a serious issue of this era. Therefore there is a need to shift toward easily available eco-friendly approaches for crop production. Earlier many attempted has taken to study the production of onion with different organic inputs but the storage of these organically grown onions were rarely addressed. This article studies the shelf life of organically grown onion in ambient condition. The experiment was conducted in the 2012-2013 at IRTDM faculty centre, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Morabadi, Ranchi-834008 to study on Shelf life of organically grown sand mulched onion under ambient condition. Different liquid organic manures viz. Shashyagavya 20% (T1), Shashyagavya 10% (T2), Sanjivani 20% (T3), Sanjivani 10% (T4), Mustard oilcake solution 12.5% (T5), Cow urine 10% (T6) and only water (T7) as control were used as seven different treatments with three replications for the study. Onion cv. Agrifound Dark Red was used as planting material for the experiment. CRBD were followed for bulb production. The study reviles that initially higher weight loss is noticed and weight loss is very much dependent on environmental condition. 

Keywords

onion, organic, shelf life, storage, Jharkhand