The effectiveness of compost and manure on hot chili production in North Sulawesi

Abstract

North Sulawesi is Famous as spicy culinary in Indonesia, therefore hot chili become the most important vegetable commodity in this region. An experiment to observe the influence of compost and manure on hot chili production has been conducted at Pandu Experimental Station in January to September 2018. The treatments were designed into RCBD proceeded to the Least Significant Difference Test (LSD test). Six treatments were applied, Control, without fertilizer; Inorganic fertilizer; Compost; Manure; Compost +inorganic fertilizer and Manure + inorganic fertilizer. The main parameter tested is the fresh fruit weight shown that the best treatment obtained is the treatment compost+ inorganic fertilizer, the total fresh weight gotten within 8 months productive age is 742 gr per plant, followed by the Manure + inorganic 696 gr per plant, these significantly higher than other treatments. The compost treatments are relatively better than the commercial manure due to its well decomposition of compost compared to the commercial manure. Financially, the farming also is feasible where R/C Ratio were above 1.2. The R/C Ratio were 2.83; 2.42 and 1.41 respectively for treatment E, B and A.