Evaluación de tres abonos orgánicos en la producción del cultivo de rábano (Raphanus sativus), en la parroquia Francisco de Orellana

Abstract

In Francisco of Orellana parish, agricultural production is affected by lack of fresh vegetables in adequate conditions for consumption, the ignorance about production alternatives. Therefore, it was proposed to evaluate the radish yield (Raphanus sativus) against to three organic fertilizers application in Francisco of Orellana parish. Within the experiment, a Block Design Completely Randomized (DBCA) was used, which corresponds to four treatments with three replications, only factor under study being fertilization, the same once used were chosen for their easy acquisition, among them compost, humus and humic acids; To determine the influence of mentioned fertilizers, growth variables such as plant height, leaf width and number of leaves and production variables such as bulb diameter, root length, bulb weight with and without foliage were tested. By means the applied methodology it was identified that humic acids cause a great difference with other treatments since it reached the greatest height, with wider leaves improving the metabolic process of plant, besides having a greater number of leaves, obtaining a bulb superior to the other fertilizers, with 145 gr with foliage, 67.55 gr without foliage, 6.28cm bulb diameter. It was concluded that humic acid is the most efficient organic fertilizer, so the application of organic fertilizers is preferable to not applying any type of treatment, including that after obtaining a cost-benefit ratio of 1.18; it was shown that the production of radish with this organic fertilizer is profitable.