Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

A field experiment entitled “Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on yield and quality of Acid lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle.) cv. “Kagzi” was conducted using 21 treatments in Randomized Block Design with four replications covering 88 plants in all during July 2019 to December 2020 at the Instructional Farm, Department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar, Rajasthan.

The result harnessed that application of T₁₉ treatment (75% RDF + Vermicompost 10kg+ 75g VAM/plant) was found significantly superior over all other treatments with respect to biometric improvement in yield and quality parameters viz. fruit length (4.66cm), fruit retention (30.79%), fruit breadth (4.25cm), average fruit weight (59.24g), fruit volume (68.93), specific gravity (1.07), number of seeds/fruit (7.88), peel thickness (1.33mm), number of fruits per plant (560.75) and bio-chemical quality attributes like relative water content (77.56%), total soluble solids (9.800brix), acidity (6.34%), TSS/acidity ratio (1.51), reducing sugars (0.88%), non-reducing sugars (0.77%), total sugars (2.02%), ascorbic acid (63.56mg/100g), juice (51.98%), chlorophyll a (1.11mg g^-1), chlorophyll b (0.70 mg g^-1), total chlorophyll (1.88 mg g^-1) and estimated yield (33.01kg plant^-1).