THE POTENTIAL EFFECT OF FISH WASTE FERTILIZER ON THE GROWTH AND YIELD OF AMARANTHUS DUBIUS AND TRIGONELLAFOENUM-GRAECUM

The present investigation has been designed to prepare the organic fertilizer from fish waste and to study the efficacy of fish waste fertilizer on the growth and yield of the plants Amaranthus dubius (amaranthus) and Trigonella foenum- graecum (coriander). Fish wastes collected from the slaughter house has been converted into fertilizer and the nutrient quality in terms of protein, carbohydrate, nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium contents in the fish waste fertilizer were tested using standard procedures. For assessing the potential effect of prepared fertilizer on growth and yield, fish waste fertilizer sprayed (foliar spray) on the experimental plants in the interval of seven days and up to 35 days of experimental period. Triplicates experimental setup were maintained for both the experimental plants and Control (water). During the experimental period, plants in both control and experimental pots were randomly selected which had nearly same height in order to record various growths and yield parameters. The impact of treatment has been studied in terms of growth and yield parameters such as plant height (cm), shoot length (cm), number of leaves (cm), number of branches (cm), leaf length (cm), length of internodes (cm), root length (cm) and stem diameter (cm).