Vol. 10, Issue 7 (2021)

Author(s):
Khusboo Sahu, Vijay Kumar, Jitendra Singh and SS Porte

Abstract:
The experiment was carried out during rabi seasons of 2018-19 and 2019-20 at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya in plots of the Horticulture Research cum Instructional Farm, Department of Vegetable Science, Raipur. The experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design with 24 treatment combinations which were replicated three times. To find out the effect of plant growth retardant on different sweet potato varieties for yield attributing characters. Among the varieties tested, Chhattisgarh Sarkarkand Priya and Cycocel 500ppm as foliar spray at 60 and 80 DAT significantly higher values of like root tuber length (cm), root tuber breadth (cm), root tuber girth (cm), number of root tuber per plant, fresh weight of root tuber per plant (g) and total root tuber yield(q ha^-1).