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Vol.1 , No. 1, Publication Date: Mar. 23, 2018, Page: 34-40
&description=Sugar mills play a major role in creating environmental pollution. It releases a larger amount of wastewater as effluent into the nearby water bodies which create serious problem in the aquatic ecosystem. Due to water scarcity, the farmers are started to use these polluted water for agricultural irrigation. In the present study, the impact of different concentrations (10, 25, 50, 75 and 100%) of sugar mill effluent on growth and yield of African marigold (<i>Tagetes erecta</i> L.) was reported. The morphological growth parameters such as root length, shoot length, total leaf area, fresh weight and dry weigh were recorded at 30, 60 and 90 DAS respectively. The yield parameters like number of flowers per plant, diameter of flower, fresh weight and dry weight of flower were recorded at harvest stage. The highest growth and yield was recorded in the plant irrigated with lower concentration (10%) of sugar mill effluent. These parameters were found to be gradually decreased with increase of effluent concentrations. From this study, it is suggested that the lower concentration (10%) of sugar mill effluent can be used for irrigation.&picture=http://www.aascit.org/aascit/decorators/img/journal/810.jpg)
| [1] | Thanapal Vaithiyanathan, PG Research Department of Botany, Vivekanandha College of Arts and Sciences for Women, Tamil Nadu, India. |
| [2] | Anbazhagan Kathirvel Murugan, Department of Botany, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India. |
| [3] | Perumal Sundaramoorthy, Department of Botany, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India. |
Sugar mills play a major role in creating environmental pollution. It releases a larger amount of wastewater as effluent into the nearby water bodies which create serious problem in the aquatic ecosystem. Due to water scarcity, the farmers are started to use these polluted water for agricultural irrigation. In the present study, the impact of different concentrations (10, 25, 50, 75 and 100%) of sugar mill effluent on growth and yield of African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) was reported. The morphological growth parameters such as root length, shoot length, total leaf area, fresh weight and dry weigh were recorded at 30, 60 and 90 DAS respectively. The yield parameters like number of flowers per plant, diameter of flower, fresh weight and dry weight of flower were recorded at harvest stage. The highest growth and yield was recorded in the plant irrigated with lower concentration (10%) of sugar mill effluent. These parameters were found to be gradually decreased with increase of effluent concentrations. From this study, it is suggested that the lower concentration (10%) of sugar mill effluent can be used for irrigation.
Keywords
Agriculture, Pollution, Sugar Mill Effluent, Tagetes erecta and Yield
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