Research Article Enrichment in Growth, Yield and Quality Attributes of Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) Cv. Camarosa, through the INM

Abstract

An experiment was conducted in the Farm Unit 02, Department of Agriculture, IIAST, Integral University, Lucknow, during the two subsequent years i.e. 2020-21 and 2021-22 to study the Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) on growth, yield and quality of strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa.Duch) cv. Camarosa. All doses of biofertilizers viz, Azotobacter, Azospirillium and PSB were applied as root treatment when transplantation was done in the plots according to treatments. The experiment’s two year's worth of data were combined and examined. During research, height of the plant increased to (15.60 cm), the number of leaves was counted (19.68), spread of plant (13.81 cm). Those plants treated with T7 were recorded to be greater than other treatments. While the lowest result was the plant height (9.93 cm), the of leaves number was counted (13.94), the spread of the plant was recorded (9.90 cm) in the T0 (control), on the other hand berry length (5.57 cm), width of berry (4.25 cm), weight of berry (22.84 g), counted berries per plant (22.83), yield of the berry per plant (508.98 gm ), berry yield/block (10.17 Kg) and berry harvest quintals/ha-1 (272.08 q/ha) were recorded in T7. The maximum TSS (14.40 Brix), total sugars (7.71%), TSS acid ratio (23.43), and minimum acidity (0.60%) were recorded in T7 while maximum acidity was found at T0.