Influence of Agriphotovoltaics on performance of turmeric (Curcuma longa L)

An experiment was conducted to integrate turmeric crop production under the GM-APV system, so as to analyse the performance and also elaborate the feasibility of the concept.The experiment was conductedusing randomized block design with five treatments as growing conditions of the turmeric crophaving three replications.The details of treatments were T1 -Sole 3.75 m panel, T2-Sole 1.75 m panel, T3 -Turmeric below 3.75 m panel, T4 -Turmeric between 3.75 m panel, T5 -Turmeric below 1.75 m panel, T6-Turmeric between 1.75 m panel and T7 Open conditions (Sole Turmeric).Results revealed that different GM APVs influenced the growth and yield parameters of turmeric cultivar Salem significantly, except emergence count at 60 DAP which differed non significantly.The treatment T3 where turmeric planted below 3.75 m recorded significantly more number of tillers clump -1 (3.96), pseudostem height clump -1 (32.50 cm), number of leaves clump -1 ( 22) and leaf area clump -1 (72.60 cm 2 ), Chlorophyll content (35.40 Spad), crop duration (306.48 days), rhizome yield plant -1 (0.65 kg),fresh rhizome yield ha - 1 (40.70 t) and dry rhizome yield ha -1 (8.75 t).