University Of Tehran Press Pollution 2383-451X 1 3 2015 07 01 Effect of a thermal power plant waste fly ash on leguminous and non-leguminous leafy vegetables in extracting maximum benefits from P and K fertilization 297 304 53932 10.7508/pj.2015.03.006 EN Akhtar Inam Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Section, Department of Botany, Women’s College Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (U.P), India Seema Sahay Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Environmental Botany Section, Department of Botany Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (U.P), India Journal Article 2015 01 15 Although the Indian population is largely vegetarian, not much attention has been given to the cultivation of vegetables, as compared to other crops like cereals, pulses and oil seeds. Therefore, the present study was conducted on two leafy vegetables, spinach (Spanacia oleracea L.) and methi (Trigonella foenum graecum L.) commonly grown in Aligarh, as the two popular vegetables of Indian diet. The study was conducted for two successive years and during the first year, phosphorus and fly ash interactions with a uniform dose of nitrogen and potassium on both vegetables was observed. During the second year, while keeping nitrogen and phosphorus uniform, potassium and fly ash combinations were studied again with both vegetables, to determine the optimum dose of inorganic fertilizers and fly ash combination. It was observed that fly ash applied at the rate of 15 t ha-1 along with N40P15K20, proved optimum for spinach while in the case of methi, N20P30K40 + FA10 was sufficient. Therefore, both vegetables can safely be grown with 10 to 15 t ha-1 of fly ash and a comparatively lower quantity of NPK. https://jpoll.ut.ac.ir/article_53932_f7d019caa4d2218c149d2617aa217bbd.pdf