Vol. 10, Issue 9 (2021)

Hence, a field experiment entitled effect of Different Organic Media on Growth and Establishment of Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa) cv. Winter dawn under East-Singhbhum (Jharkhand) Agro - Climatic Conditionsʼʼ was conducted during the October 2020 to February 2021, at the Experimental field, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, East-Sighbhum, Jharkhand. The experiment consisted of nine different combinations of treatments of organic manures and inorganic fertilizers which was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications. Different proportions of organic manures and inorganic fertilizers viz., Vermicompost (25%, 75%, 100%), Azatobacter (25%, 75%, 100%), Trichoderma (25%, 75%, 100%) and RDF (25%, 75%, 100%) were applied. Result revealed that the treatment T7 (Vermicompost 50%+ NPK 50%+ Trichoderma) was found significantly superior over all other treatments with respect to plant growth and development characteristics including survival percentage. The plant growth parameters like plant height(22.08cm), number of leaves per plant (35.00), number of runners per plant (12.33) and plant spread (35.95cm²), leaf area (29.53cm²) and days to first flowering (24.68 days), survival percentage (100%) increased significantly under T4 treatment in strawberry cv. Winter dawn.

The knowledge regarding the utility of merging these fertilizers in fruit crops is very minimal. Under prevailing circumstances it is the duty of the researchers to give rise to the information on fruitfulness and economics of these organic and fertilizers in temperate fruit crop like strawberry.