Preliminary Application of Vermicompost in Rice Production: Effects of Nursery Raising with Vermicompost on Fragrant Rice Performances

Vermicompost is an excellent organic fertilizer, but the application of vermicompost in fragrant rice production has not yet been reported. Seedling nursery important component production. The present study firstly applied through raising. seedlings three cultivars were raised matrix with different rations (the treatment without was taken as control), and growth parameters physiological characters investigated. results showed that, compared control, significantly (p < 0.05) increased plant height, stem diameter, fresh weight, dry weight by 11.22–24.73%, 38.34–65.87%, 16.74–30.46%, 16.61–35.16%, respectively. Nursery raising enhanced net photosynthetic rate 5.99–12.93%, relative to control. Higher contents chlorophyll a, b, carotenoids, total recorded treatments than Compared also root length, surface area, mean volume, tip number, activity 12.42–27.82%, 15.04–38.65%, 12.64–23.12%, 42.41–63.58%, 18.62–24.95%, 12.01–26.29%, Moreover, activities antioxidant enzymes including superoxide, peroxidase, catalase 7.97–24.21%, 17.11–44.99%, 7.37–15.95%, respectively, 7.92–29.40% lower malondialdehyde Therefore, could be a good agronomy practice machine-transplanted rice.