Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
Patel KH, Parmar PK, Patel MB, Varma HS, Mehta PV and Patel NJ

Abstract:
For evaluation the performance of nitrogen and phosphorus on yield of baby corn and quality parameters, a trial was taken at MMRS, AAU, Godhra in the period of kharif 2020, kharif-2021 and kharif 2022. The experiment was laid down by keeping spacing 45 x 20 cm by taking 03 levels of nitrogen (40, 60 and 80 kgN/ha), 02 levels of phosphorus (20 and 40 kg P2O5/ha) with four replications. The results indicated that 80 kg N/ha gave 5306 kg/ha and 1418 kg/ha baby corn yield with husk and without husk, respectively. While 40 kg Phosphorus gave 4920 kg/ha and 1369 kg/ha baby corn yield with husk and without husk, respectively. Eighty kg Nitrogen per hector gave 5.87% Total Soluble Solids and 4.57 mg/100 gm total carotenoids while Fourty kg phosphorus per hector gave more percentage of Total Soluble Solids (5.70%) and more carotenoids % (4.54 mg/100 gm). Out of all, N3P2 (Eighty kg nitrogen and Fourty kg phosphorus per hectare) presented more net return (Rs.1,62,745) with more Benefit Cost Ratio (7.09) than other treatments. Looking to these results, it is advised to the farmers growing baby corn in kharif season to apply 40 kilogram Nitrogen as well as 20 kilogram phosphorus per hectare.