Effect of mulching on strawberry production under mid hill conditions of Uttarakhand

The field experiment conducted on strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) cv. Chandler at Research Block of Department of Horticulture, College of Forestry and Hill Agriculture, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. Hill Campus, Ranichauri, Tehri Garhwal, Uttaralkhand during 2010–11 to study the effects of different mulching material on plant growth, yield and quality of strawberry cv. Chandler under mid hill condition. All the plant growth, yield and quality characters were superior with black polyethylene mulch followed by transparent polythene, paddy straw while, plants without mulch (control) resulted poor growth and yield.