Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
JJ Patel, DK Sharma, AM Patel and DC Barot

Abstract:
The present work growth and yield performance of different exotic mango cultivars under South Gujarat was conducted during the years 2021-22 and 2022-23 at Agriculture Experimental Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Paria, Gujarat. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with three repetitions, which includes six treatments (varieties) viz., V₁: Maya, V₂: Osteen, V₃: Kent, V₄: Lily, V₅: Palmer and V₆: Keitt. Among all the varietal treatments, Palmer (V₅) variety was found superior with respect to plant height (6.50, 6.57 and 6.53 m), stem girth (87.67, 88.00 and 87.83 cm), plant spread in East-West direction (8.13, 8.27 and 8.20 m) as well as North-South direction (8.03, 8.13 and 8.08 m) and canopy spread (8.08, 8.20 and 8.14 m) during both the years and in pooled analysis, respectively. In case of yield parameters, the highest number of fruits per tree (246.00, 256.67 and 251.33) was observed in Maya (V₁). whereas, the highest average fruit weight (667.67, 691.00 and 679.33 g), fruit length (14.33, 14.74 and 14.53 cm), fruit diameter (10.00, 10.15 and 10.08 cm) and fruit yield (119. 08 kg/tree and 18.61 t/ha, 127.85 kg/tree and 19.98 t/ha and 123.46 kg/tree and 19.29 t/ha) were reported in Palmer (V₅) for both the years and in pooled, respectively.