Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Ashish Singh, VM Prasad, Vijay Bahadur, Saket Mishra, Anil Kumar and Shubham Jain

Abstract:
A Research entitled “Effect of various mulching material on vegetative growth, Flowering and fruiting attributes of strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) cv. Winter Dawn.” was carried out at the Research Farm of the Department of Horticulture at Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences in Prayagraj (U.P.), during the academic years of 2020–2021 and 2021–2022. Eleven treatments using various mulching materials were tested in a Randomised Block Design with three replicates. Treatments were namely T₁ Control (Without Mulching), T₂ Wheat straw (5 t/ha), T₃ Paddy straw (5 t/ha), T₄ Coconut husk (5 t/ha), T₅ Paddy husk (5 t/ha), T₆ Saw dust (5 t/ha), T₇ Cut grass (5 t/ha), T₈ Green polythene (200 gaze), T₉ Blue polythene (200 gaze), T₁₀ Transparent polythene (200 gaze), T₁₁ Black polythene (200 gaze). The experiment's primary objective was to determine the effect of various mulching material on the vegetative growth and flowering, fruiting traits of strawberry cv. Winter dawn. According to the findings of this study, application of treatment T₁₁ Black polythene (200 gaze) proved to be most effective mulching material to increase plant height, no. of leaves, plant spread, early flowering and maximum no. of strawberries.