Enhancement of cashew yield through foliar feeding of nutrients
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https://doi.org/10.5958/2582-2683.2022.00015.6Keywords:
Cashew, flushing, flowering, panicle, rainfed, water soluble nutrientsAbstract
The experiment, conducted to access the effect of water soluble nutrients on growth and yield of cashew under rainfed conditions at farmer’s field during the years 2017-18 and 2019-20 with nine treatments viz., control (no spray), urea (2%), 0:52:34 (1% and 2%), 13:0:45 (1% and 2%), 19:19:19 (1% and 2%), using 6 years old trees of cashew cv. Vengurla-4 planted at 7m x 7m spacing, showed that three foliar applications of nutrients at 19:19:19 @ 2 per cent recorded the highest sex ratio (0.24), nut weight (8.50g) and yield (8.58 kg tree-1 and 1.75t ha-1) and appeared best for cashew yield enhancement.
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