National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of fertigation on the performance of Cabbage variety Unnati at ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru during rabi of 2013 and 2014. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications and consisted of total ten treatments, which included different doses, sources of fertilizers and its frequency of application. The pooled analysis of two years data revealed that the application of fertilizer dose (150:100:125 kg NPK ha-1) through fertigation using water soluble fertilizers on weekly interval resulted in higher values for plant height (29.56 cm), leaves per plant (25.67) and leaf weight per plant (599.30 gm) at 60 days after transplanting, which remained on par with the same dose and source applied at bi-weekly interval. Similarly, these two treatments recorded higher values for head weight (454.0 and 423.6 g), stem weight (102.3 and 94.0 g) and root weight (66.67 and 45.67 g) at harvest. All the fertigation treatments recorded higher yields over the conventional soil application of fertilizers to the tune of 6.5 – 60.3 per cent. Among the fertigation treatments, application of 100 per cent recommended dose using water soluble fertilizers at weekly interval resulted in significantly higher yield (60.86 t ha-1) than all the other treatments tested except the treatment where the bi-weekly application of same dose of fertilizer through the same sources (58.82 t ha¬-1) was done.
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