Fruit Quality of Different Mango (Mangifera indica L.) Cultivars Grown in the Foothills of Shiwaliks
Keywords:
Mallika, Amrapali, Characteristics, Varietal evaluation Fruit yieldAbstract
The present study describes the post-harvest evaluation of eight mango (Mangifera indica L.) cultivars viz., Dashehari, Langra, Chausa, Safeda, Ramkela, Sinduri, Amrapali, Mallika being grown in the eroded soils of the foothills of Shiwaliks. Plantation of uniform sized plantlets of different cultivars was raised under uniform edaphic conditions in the Research farm of ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Farm, Panchkula (Haryana), India in year 2000. Postharvest evaluation of different cultivars was carried out for the year 2008, 2009 and 2010. Data for the different post-harvest quality parameter were recorded. The lowest cumulative yield of 3 years crop war 28.7 kg tree-1 which was recorded for the cultivar Sinduri whereas the highest yield was recorded for the cultivar Mallika. Physiologically matured and ripe fruits were utilized for physical–biochemical analysis. The qualitative analysis of fruits indicated the superiority of hybrid Mallika in terms of total soluble solids, titrable acidity, TSS: acid ratio, sugar content, stone, peel and pulp attributes and lowest percent physiological loss in weight during ripening in comparison to other cultivars evaluated in the study.
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