2015 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages 138-142
The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of chemical and bio-compost fertilizer application on growth and yield of mungbean when grown as pre-or post-rice under rainfed conditions, as well as economic return of growing mungbean. A randomized complete block design (RCBD) was used, with four fertilizer application treatments; soil applied as basal NPK, folia applied chelate EDTA compound, folia applied bio-compost and control. The results showed that soil applied NPK produced the maximum seed yield when mungbean grown as pre-or post-rice crop. In economic return, soil applied as basal NPK provided the maximum net benefit (565US $/ha) when mungbean grown as pre-rice crop. While, folia applied bio-compost gave the highest net benefit (295US $/ha) mungbean grown as post-rice crop.
