Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Gayatri, AM Sonkamble, VS Kale, SO Bawker and Prakash Kanwar

Abstract:
The present investigation entitled “Effect of foliar application of micronutrients on growth, yield and quality of garlic” was undertaken at Instructional Farm, Department of Vegetable Science, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola during Rabi season of 2021-2022. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications and nine treatments viz., T₁: ZnSO₄ -0.25%, T₂: ZnSO₄ -0.50%, T₃: FeSO₄ -0.25%, T₄: FeSO₄ -0.50%, T₅: Borax-0.2%, T₆: Borax-0.3%, T₇: PDKV Micrograde-II (1%), T₈: PDKV Micrograde-II (2%), T₉: Control. Among all the treatments T₈ treatment: PDKV Micrograde-II (2%) was recorded significantly maximum growth parameters viz., plant height (cm), length of leaves (cm), number of leaves per plant, neck thickness (cm) at 90 days DAS and the yield and yield contributing characters viz., fresh weight of bulb (g), cured weight of bulb (g), number of cloves per bulb, length of cloves, bulb girth (cm), yield per plot (kg), yield per hectare (q), fruit quality observation viz., total soluble solids i.e. TSS content (%). Minimum growth was recorded under T₉ control treatment.