Vol. 8, Issue 8 (2019)

Author(s):
Gyanendra Kumar Yadav, VM Prasad and Samir E Topno

Abstract:
The present experiment was carried out during September to December, 2018 in Research Field of Department of Horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj. The experiment was conducted in Randomized Block Design (RBD), with twelve treatments, replicated thrice of Micronutrients and NPK. the treatments were T₀ (Control (100% RDF)), T₁ (NPK @ 100%), T₂ (25% RDF + 75% FYM), T₃ (B @ 0.3%), T₄ (ZnSO₄ @ 0.5% + B @ 0.3%), T₅ ZnSO₄ @ 0.3% + B @ 0.1%), T₆ (NPK @ 100% + ZnSO₄ @ 0.3%), T₇ (NPK @ 50% + ZnSO₄ @ 0.5%), T₈ (NPK @ 100% + B @ 0.1%), T₉ (NPK @ 50% + B @ 0.3%), T₁₀ (NPK @ 100% + ZnSO₄ @ 0.5% + B @ 0.3%) and T₁₁ (NPK @ 50% + ZnSO₄ @ 0.3% + B @ 0.1%). From the present experimental findings it is found that the treatment T₁₀ (NPK @ 100% + ZnSO₄ @ 0.5% + B @ 0.3%) was found superior over other treatments in terms of growth, yield and quality of Bottle gourd, followed by treatment T₈ (NPK @ 100% + B @ 0.1%), in terms of economics treatment T₁ (NPK @ 100%) maximum cost benefit ratio 1:6.32 and lowest readings was recorded in T₀ (Control) in all the parameters.