Vol. 11, Issue 5 (2022)

Author(s):
Pradip Kumar, Shweta Soni, SC Singh, Sunil Kumar, RK Singh, Priya Awasthi and Rahul Kumar

Abstract:
The present investigation entitled “Impact of Growth and Quality on Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) as influenced by different doses of NPK” was conducted at Vegetable Research Farm at College of Horticulture, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda, Uttar-Pradesh during Rabi season of 2021. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications. The treatments involved in the study were 10 in numbers i.e.,T₁ 50:100:50 NPK/ha (control), T₂ 100:100:50 NPK/ha, T₃ 150:100:50 NPK/ha, T₄ 200:100:50 NPK/ ha, T₅ 50:150:50 NPK/ha, T₆ 50:200:50 NPK/ha, T₇ 50:250:50 NPK/ha, T₈ 50:100:100 NPK/ha, T₉ 50:100:150 NPK/ha and T₁₀ 50:100:150 NPK/ha and they were applied with an objective to study the effect of NPK on growth and quality of Radish. On the basis of result obtained and summarized from the present study, it can be concluded that all the observations taken for radish were found to be superior with the application of NPK. In the present study, it was observed that the application of 200:100:50 NPK/ha increased all the parameters [i.e. plant height (cm), number of leaves plant-1, leaf length (cm), leaf width (cm), weight of leaves per plant (g) and TSS (⁰Brix)] followed by 150:100:50 NPK/ha and 50:250:50 NPK/ha. Therefore among all the combinations of NPK applied 200:100:50 NPK/ha was found significantly most effective in increasing the growth and quality attributing traits.