Renovate the Infertile Rubber Plantation Soil to Fertile Soil through House Hold Agronomics Wastes

Author(s): S. Sujatha*, Aseela Devi P.J. Beneesha V.K. Geethu, G. S. Sona, I. S. Jibin, M. A. Sajith S.K. Bedwin Tom K.S

Abstract: Soils normally play a major role in dictating the availability of nutrients to plants. The influence on this availability is primarily through the mineral reserves in the soil and the nutrients added to the soil. Chemically, soils contain different proportions of nutrients considered to be important for the rubber trees, viz. nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium. Hence the present study framed the following objectives. Initially to study the physic-chemical characters of rubber plantation soil (Experimental soil-1) and mixture of agronomic wastes with rubber plantation soil (Experimental soil-2) quantitatively by soil analysis, secondly to investigated quality of these two soils through HPLC technique. From the result was showed that the rate also significantly reduced the percentage of seed germination (40%) in rubber plantation soil, it was remarkably minimum level of growth efficiency denoted when compared with other two soils. Initially, prolonged period of germination also been observed in experimental soil -1 In addition, maximum root length was observed in mixture of agronomic waste with rubber plantation soil it was statistically significant at the level of 0.05% but eight-fold decreased range of root length has been noticed in experimental-1 rubber plantation soil. Similarly, other four parameters like leaf length, number of leaves, stem length, and leaf breadth were drastically reduced when it compared with agronomic mixed and control soil. Among, the three experimental soils are clearly noticed which were oscillated or altered level (of the minimum to completely micro and macro elements are absent) in an essential and non-essential metal as well as proper nutrients also been absent for growth of many plants. The overall conclusion of this present study was clearly showed that when the major experimental soil scientifically analyzed, after five years of Rubber plantation soil drastically reduced the typical essential macro and microelements. So, no other crop plant was growing as a healthy in the same soil because important plant growth nutrients are totally reduced in the experimental soil-2.

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