Nutrient management on growth, yield and quality of sweet corn, baby corn and maize

A field experiment was conducted at Agronomy Section, College of Agriculture, Agronomy farm, Dhule During Kharif 2013 to study the effect of nutrient management on growth, yield and quality of different corn types. Sweet corn, variety sugar-75 showed higher values of growth, yield and quality parameters as compared to baby corn variety Sonal and grain maize variety Rajarshi. Application of 150 per cent RDF (180: 90: 60 NPK kg ha⁻¹) resulted in improvement of all the growth, yield and quality components and also fresh green cob, and fodder yields than rest of fertilizer level. However, it was at par with the application of 125 per cent RDF (150: 75: 50 NPK kg ha⁻¹).