Effect of Boron and Potash on Control of Fruit Splitting and Fruit Drop in Mango (Mangifera indica L.) cv. Amrapali Gupta Vikash*, Das R. P., Bhattacharyya D., Hazarika Bikash Department of Horticulture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat *email: vikash27oct@gmail.com
Online published on 15 December, 2016. Abstract A field experiment was carried out at the Experimental Farm, Department of Horticulture, AAU, Jorhat, during 2013–2015, with nine treatments including control with three replications allocated in a randomized block design. Among the nine treatments The highest panicle length (27.38 cm), initial number of fruits per panicle (12.78), maximum percentage of fruit set (27.66 per cent), number of fruits per panicle at harvest (2.30), number of fruits per plant at harvest (90.63), fruit weight (166.66 g), fruit volume (162.91 cc), pulp weight (118.06 g), minimum fruit drop (81.95), minimum number of splited fruit per plant (23.21), maximum yield per plant (15.75 kg), yield per hectare (6.30 t) and the highest benefit-cost ratio of (2.18) were obtained under T9 (125 g borax +800 g potash). Top Keywords Mango, Amrapali, Boron, Potash. Top |