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GROWTH RESPONSE AND YIELD OF PEANUT (ARACHIS HYPOGAEA) TO APPLICATION OF NPK COMPOUND FERTILIZER AND PRUNING OF MAIN BRANCHES

Mindalisma*, Chairani Siregar, Ratna Mauli Lubis, Diapari siregar, Yenni Asbur, Yayuk Purwaningrum and Rahmi Dwi Handayani Rambe

ABSTRACT

Peanut is one of the important food crops in Indonesia and has a strategic role in the national economy, given its multipurpose function, as a source of food, feed, and industrial raw materials. However, its productivity is still very low due to the low input of cultivation technology on peanuts. The input of cultivation technology that can be applied as an effort to increase peanut productivity is the application of NPK compound fertilizer and pruning of main branches. This study aims to determine the effect of NPK compound fertilizer and main branch pruning on the growth and yield of peanuts. The study used a factorial randomized block design with three replications with two treatment factors, namely the dose of NPK compound fertilizer (P) and pruning of main branches (C). The results showed that the dose of compound fertilizer 300 kg/ha (P3) and pruning the main branch by leaving 3 branches (C3) independently resulted in the best growth and yield of peanuts.

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