Peat-Based Organo-Mineral Fertilizer Improves Nitrogen Use Efficiency, Soil Quality, and Yield of Baby Corn (Zea mays L.)

The application of organo-mineral fertilizers (OMFs) is gaining popularity day by because their potential effect on crop productivity and soil fertility enhancement. Therefore, this research was conducted to observe the a peat soil–urea (PSU) fertilizer baby corn yield, quality, nitrogen (N) use efficiency, quality compared with commercial urea. A completely randomized design (CRD) four replicates used set up experiment. In trial, N applied from three sources, viz., urea, PSU-L (low = 15%), PSU-H (high 25%) at rate 50, 75, 100% recommended dose. growth, efficiency were significantly impacted PSU soil. Substantially higher leaf chlorophyll, cob vitamin C, protein content found in PSU-treated plants produced about 21% 14% fodder yield over On average, uptake 22% than urea-treated plants, resulting 24 33% respectively, could be reduced around 30% using as an alternate source addition, substantially increased organic carbon (SOC) content, whereas SOC decreased