Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: An experiment was conducted on 4-year old guava trees during 2007-08to study the “Effect of Bio-fertilizer and organic manures on yield and quality ofguava cv. Red Fleshed”. Average maximum fruit yield for the rainy and winterseason crop was 38.23 kg/tree and 19.03 kg/tree respectively, with 250g Azotobactor+ 20 kg FYM. Vermicompost (20kg/tree) had significantly higher yield over controland was recommended as 3rd best treatment among all regarding the yield. Highestfruit weight 198.2g and 299.2g, fruit length 5.9cm and 7.19cm and fruit breadth7cm and 7.41cm for rainy and winter season crop, respectively, were obtainedwith the application of Phosphobacterin (50ml/tree), which was, however at parwith that obtained with VAM (10 kg/tree). Highest TSS (16.07 OB and 17.9 0B) forrainy and winter season crop, respectively, as well as Vitamin C (189.57 mg/100g)was obtained with the application of VAM. Acidity was not influenced by theapplication of bio-fertilizer. However, acidity was highest (0.54 %) under FYMtreatment. From the present study, it can be concluded that the application of biofertilizerwas more effective than organic manures in enhancing fruit growthparameters in guava in both seasons. When bio-fertilizers were grouped together,P-solubilizers were found to have more beneficial influence on fruit physicochemicalcharacteristics of guava cv. Red Fleshed as compared to N-fixers.
Source: THE SCIENTIFIC TEMPER
Authors: Deepa H. Dwivedi, Rubee Lata, R. B. Ram
Institution: Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
Language: English
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4381684487