Inorganic fertilization through the use of organic supplements in low-chill pear cv. Pant Pear-18

The study with different organic manures and biofertilizers with or without chemical fertilizers combination was conducted. Different treatment combinations involving the use of organic nutrition to reduce the quantity of recommended inorganic fertilizers had significant effect on yield and quality of Pant Pear-18. The treatment consisting of 10 kg poultry manure + 300 :150 : 250 g NPK/tree through fertilizers (T₄) had maximum yield (50.17 and 62.50 kg, respectively) in both the years and also have a significant improvement in fruit quality in terms of TSS, reducing sugar, non-reducing sugar, total sugars, fruit weight, volume, etc. The treatment with only organic manures (T_g) resulted in fruit quality enhancement but had less effect on productivity.