Progressive Horticulture
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 47
  • Issue: 1

Effect of foliar application of zinc on yield and quality of cabbage in Kymore plateau and Satpura hills of Madhya Pradesh

  • Author:
  • A.K. Singh1,, S.R.K. Singh2, U.S. Gautam2, A.P. Dwivedi2, Jai Singh3, A.K. Tomar4
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 106 to 108

1JNKVV, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Narsinghpur (M.P.)

2Zonal Project Directorate, Zone-VII, ICAR, JNKVV campus, Adhartal, Jabalpur (M.P.)

3JNKVV, KrishiVigyan Kendra, Sidhi (M.P.)

4Food Science& Technology Division, College of Agriculture, JNKVV, Jabalpur (M.P.)

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Abstract

Cabbage is an important vegetable crop and zinc plays important role in yield enhancement. On farm trials were conducted at farmer's field in Lingari village under Bahoriband block of Katni district to assess the influence of foliar application of zinc on yield and quality of cabbage during the years 2007–08 and 2008–09. Five treatments, viz., T1(Farmer's practice-N:P:K:Zn@ 68:57:0:0 kg/ha), T2(100% NPK+ two foliar sprays of Zn-50 ppm), T3(100% NPK+ two foliar sprays of Zn-100 ppm), T4(100% NPK+ three foliar sprays of Zn-50 ppm) and T5(100% NPK+ three foliar sprays of Zn-100 ppm) were assessed to find out the optimum dose of zinc as foliar application. T5treatment was found best as it resulted significantly higher yield (380 q/ha) with compact and smooth heads over farmer's practice (302.7 q/ha). A marginal increase in the cultivation cost under the T5 treatment over T1 increased the net profit more than Rs.22,000 per ha which indicates that it is economically viable.

Keywords

Zinc, foliar spray, yield, quality, cabbage head