Current Horticulture

Open Access
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 2

Effect of foliar application on potato yield

  • Author:
  • Rajendra Bhatt1,*, Manoj Raghav1, S B Bhardwaj2, Lalit Bhatt1, Yashpal Singh Bisht1, Mukesh Kumar1
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Published Online: Aug 11, 2025
  • Page Number: 84 to 87

1Department of Vegetable, Govind Ballabh Pant University Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

2Directorate of Experiment Station, Govind Ballabh Pant University Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

Abstract

A study was carried out to explore the response of foliar nutrients on economic yield and tuber quality of potato (Solanum tuberosum L., cv. Kufri Surya) at GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, during rabi season of 2017-18. The experiment had eleven treatments replicated four times. Among all treatments, based on overall performance treatment T11 (75% N of RDF as basal + 2% foliar spray of 20:20:20 water-a soluble fertilizer at 30 and 45 DAP) was found best concerning marketable yield (36.71 t/ha), dry-matter content of tubers (20.42%), protein content in tubers (8.05%), specific gravity of tubers (1.11 g cc-1) and benefit:cost ratio (1.96). It is concluded that foliar application of nutrients had a notable impact on both yield and quality of potato tubers.

Keywords

Potato, Foliar application, Nutrients, Marketable yield, Benefit: cost ratio