Foliar Nutrition of Micro-nutrients on Physico-biochemical Characters of Pear cv. Patharnakh
Sudhanshu Nanda, Maninderjit Singh, Veerpartap Singh and Rakesh Kumar
2024/06/19
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12161291
ABSTRACT
The present investigation was carried out in the orchard, Department of Agriculture, Khalsa College, Amritsar during the year 2022-2023. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with ten treatments, replicated thrice and results were statistically analyzed at p≤0.05 level of significance. The pear plants were sprayed with different concentration of micro-nutrients i.e. Borax (0.2 %, 0.4 % and 0.6 %), ZnSO4 (0.2 %, 0.4 % and 0.6 %) and FeSO4 (0.2 %, 0.4 % and 0.6 %). It was concluded from the present study that boron (0.6 percent) proved to be the most effective treatment in enhancing the fruit length, fruit breadth, fruit weight, fruit volume, TSS, TSS/TA, juice pH and minimum titratable acidity of fruit.
AUTHOR AFFILIATIONS
P.G. Department of Agriculture, Khalsa College Amritsar, 143002, India
CITATION
Nanda S, Singh M, Singh V and Kumar R (2024) Foliar Nutrition of Micro-nutrients on Physico-biochemical Characters of Pear cv. Patharnakh. Environ Sci Arch 3(STI-1): 49-54.
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