The present investigation was conducted during the kharif season of 1995 at the Instructional-Cum-Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Dist. Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) with a view to find out the optimum dose of fertilizers for F1 hybrid tomato Cv. Rajashree under local conditions. The fertilizer treatments consisted of...

The present investigation was undertaken during the Kharif season of 1993 at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth/ Rahuri, with a view to work out optimum plant spacing and nitrogen level of newly evolved tomato cv. Bhagyashree. The experiment was laid out in Split Plot Design with 12 treatment combinations/ comprising four spacings (90 x 40, 90 x30, 75 x 40 and 75 x 30...

The growth contributing characters such as days to flowering, height ot plant, plant spread and number of primary branches per plant were significantly influenced by different levels of nitrogen. The minimum number of days to flowering was recorded at 150 kg N/ha. The plant height, number of primary branches per plant and plant spread in East West and Jouth-Uorth d...

The present investigation was undertaken during the winter season of 1992-93 at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri with a view to standardize the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium requirement of newly recommended onion cv. Phule Safed. The experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design with 3 replications consisting of 14 treatments, comprisin...

The present investigation was conducted during the summer season of 1998 at the Instructional-Cum-Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Dist. Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) with a view to standardise the optimum dose of fertilizers for bitter-gourd RHRBG-3 under Rahuri conditions. The fertilizer treatments consisted of four...

The present investigation was undertaken during August 1997 to February 1998 at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, to study the growth pattern of pomegranate seedlings under different moisture levels based on IW/CPE ratio, in different soil types. The pot culture experiment was laid out in completely randomised design with twelve treatments and three replicat...

The present investigation was undertaken during August 1997 to February 1998 at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri to study the growth pattern of pomegranate saplings under different water regimes based on IW/CPE ratio in Vertisols. The pot culture experiment was laid out in completely randomised design with four treatments and five replications. Four water re...

A field experiment was undertaken on "Scheduling of irrigation at critical growth stages of wheat under different application modes of saline water" with organic sources viz., farmyard manure (FYM) and press mud cake (PMC) for study of their effect on soil properties, nutrient uptake and yield of wheat in Sawargaon soil series. The experiment was conducted at ...

The present investigation was undertaken during the rabi season of 1996 at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, with a view to standardize suitable agro-techniques for newly developed onion cv. "Phule Suvarna." The experiment was laid out in Split-Plot Design with three replications and 18 treatment combinations comprising of two levels of planting layouts (fla...

A p o t c u l t u r e experiment was conducted d u r i n g t h e year 1993-94 a t t h e Department of A g r i c u l t u r a l Chemistry and Soil S c i e n c e , Post-Graduate i n s t i t u t e , Mahatma Phule K r i s hi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, t o study t h e e f f i c a c y of u r e a n i t r ic phosphate (UNP), t h e new complex f e r t i l i z e r developed by R...

The present research entitled, "Studies on integrated approach for improvement of marketable bulb yield and keeping quality of kharif onions" was undertaken in two parts basically for improvement of productivity of kharif onion, which is a peculiarity of Maharashtra state. The experimental trials were conducted during years 2001 and 2002 at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vid...

The present investigation entitled "Studies on radial fruit cracking in tomato {Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)" was carried out for varietal improvement of cv. Dhanashree and cv. Bhagyashree especially for fruit cracking resistance. The problem of radial fruit cracking was investigated genetically as well as agronomically. In genetical studies, thirteen select...