STUDIES ON BUNCH FEEDING IN BANANA cv. RAJAPURI (Musa AAB)
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2017-06
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UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCES, BAGALKOT
Abstract
A field experiment was carried out in farmer’s field at Tadasalur village near
Yaragatti of Savadatti taluq, Belgaum district during 2016-17 to investigate the effect
of bunch feeding in banana cv. Rajapuri (Musa AAB). The experiment was la id out in
a randomized complete block design with ten treatments which were replicated thrice.
The main objectives of the experiment was to know the effect of bunch feeding on
growth and yield, quality and benefit:cost ratio of banana.
The results revealed that, the bunch stalk fed with dipping the cut end in the
500 ml of cow dung slurry + 20 g of K2SO4 recorded significantly highest internodal
length (13.84 cm), bunch length (57.47 cm), bunch shape index (109.44 cm), hand
weight (1.79 kg), finger length (15.91 cm), finger girth (12.68 cm), finger weight
(141.50 g), pulp weight (75.54 g), peel weight (27.32 g), bunch weight (13.11 kg),
yield (14.56 t/ha), green life (12.67 days), shelf life (9.00 days), physiological loss in
weight (15.34 %), total soluble solids (21.20 0Brix), ascorbic acid (3.14 mg/100 g),
reducing sugar (13.28 %), total sugar (19.91 %), sugar to acid ratio (77.18 %) and
benefit-cost ratio (2.28:1) and lowest titrable acidity (0.24 %) and minimum number
of days taken for shooting to harvesting (120.66 days). Where as control (T10)
recorded the minimum values for most of the parameters studied.
In conclusion, the banana bunches fed with dipping the cut end in the 500 ml
of cow dung slurry + 20 g of K2SO4 improved the yield and quality parameters of
banana cv. Rajapuri grown in northern dry zone of Karnataka.
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