Meena, K.K.Jangir, Manisha2024-06-202024-06-202022https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810210661The field experiment to study the “Effect of Drip Irrigation Scheduling and Fertigation on Growth, Yield and Quality of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) cv. Bhagwa” was conducted at Horticulture farm, Rajasthan Agricultural Research Institute, Durgapura (Jaipur-Rajasthan) during 2019-20 and 2020-21. The experiment was executed in Factorial Randomized Block design and replicated 3 times with 12 treatment combinations consisting of 3 drip irrigation levels i.e. I1 (50% irrigation at PE), I2 (75% irrigation of PE), I3 (100% irrigation of PE) and 4 fertigation levels F1 (100 % RDF as basal dose plant-1 ), F2 (100 % RDF at weekly interval plant-1 ), F3 (75 % RDF at weekly interval plant-1 ) and F4 (50 % RDF at weekly interval plant-1 ), The treatment of different irrigation levels were given from July to November and fertigation levels were through water soluble fertilizer grade (WSF19:19:19) in 10 splits from fruit set to maturity stage and remaining nitrogen was supplemented through urea. The experimental results revealed that among different treatment combinations, maximum values for the vegetative growth characters such as gain in plant height, plant spread [(E-W) and (N-S)], Leaf area index and minimum values for Initiation of flowering (days) after pruning and Fruit set to maturity (days) was found under the treatment 100% irrigation at PE level+100% RDF through drip (I3F2) which was found the best for vegetative characteristics Yield and yield attributing characters such as fruit retention (%), No. of fruits plant-1 , average fruit weight (g), fruit diameter (cm.)EnglishThesis