Journal of Education & Social Policy

GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF PAPAYA PLANTS (Carica papaya L.) AS INFLUENCED BY ORGANIC MULCHES
Fernan Q. Abragan

Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of organic mulches to the growth performance of papaya plants. Specifically, it aimed to find out the performance of papaya plant growth when applied with organic mulches in terms of height and number of leaves and its significant effect in every treatment from four observations in pure soil, dried ipil-ipil, pure soil and madre de cacao leaves as organic mulches when applied to papaya plants. The results showed that, there is significant difference among the tree replicates in pure soil with a mean square of 3.94 that corresponds to the p-value of 9.37E, there is significant difference among the three replicates in soil with dried ipil-ipil leaves with a mean square of 2.61 that corresponds to the p-value of 0.0002, and there is no significant difference among the tree replicates in soil with dried madre de cacao leaves with a mean square of 0.06 which corresponds to the p-value of 0.94. This only means that among the tree treatments papaya plants transplanted in pure soil is still the most effective one.

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