Integrated Nutrient Management Strategies to Improve Yield and Quality of Strawberry Fruits
Keywords:
Vermicompost, Azotobacter, Fruit grades, Integrated nutrient, management (INM)Abstract
People all over the world prefer strawberry for its attractive colour, pleasant flavour, and richness in vitamins and minerals. Berries are highly perishable and mainly used for the table purpose. Hence, quality attributes play very important role in determining economic viability of its commercial cultivation. A field study was conducted in Himachal Pradesh (India) to standardize integrated nutrient management (INM) strategy through suitable combination of various organic, inorganic and biological nutrient sources to achieve higher productivity of quality berries. Total recommended doses of organic and inorganic fertilizers (50 t ha-1 farmyard manure and 80, 40, 40 kg ha-1 of N, P2O5 and K2O, respectively) were converted in terms N, P and K. The nutrient requirements were supplied through different combinations of organic and inorganic sources (50% organic and 50% inorganic or 100% inorganic) with and without Azotobacter inoculation. Inorganic nitrogen was applied at one or two at the stages of establishment of plant and before flowering.
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