EFFECTIVENESS OF COW DUNG COMPOST AND LIQUID ORGANIC FERTILIZER FRUIT FOR GROWTH AND PRODUCTION OF SHALLOTS

Abstract

The demand for shallots increases every year, but the production of shallots decreases every year. The factor that influences the production of shallots is fertilization. Shallots need fertilizer and sufficient nutrients to increase growth and production. This research method uses factorial randomized block design (RBD) consisting of 2 factors, 16 combinations, and 2 replications. The first factor is cow manure compost with the symbol "K" consisting of 4 levels K0 = 0 g / plot (control), K1 = 1 kg / plot, K2 = 2 kg / plot and K3 = 3 kg / plot. Liquid organic fertilizer (LOF) fruits with the symbol "C" consist of 4 levels C0 = 0 ml / L water / plot, C1 = 250 ml / L water / plot, C2 = 500 ml / L water / plot and C3 = 750 ml / L water / plot. The results showed that the administration of cow manure compost did not significantly affect the parameters of the number of leaves per sample, a number of tillers per sample, but significantly affected the production of wet tubers, dry tubers production, and conversion of shallots production, fruit LOF did not significantly affect all parameters namely number of leaves per sample (strands), a number of tillers per sample, wet tuber production per dry tuber per sample, conversion of shallots production. used in the studies is a short-lived plant. Results of research Parthasarathy et al. (2008) that with the increase of nutrient age nutrients N, P and K nutrients will be higher.