Enhancing Various Variety of Strawberry (Fragaria X ananassa) Yield with Seaweed Extract and Biochar under Prayagraj Agro Climatic Conditions
Akhilesh Kushwaha *
Department of Horticulture, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, India.
Saket Mishra
Department of Horticulture, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, India.
Vijay Bahadur
Department of Horticulture, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The present investigation was carried out during 2021-22 and 2022-23 at Central Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, NAI, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Naini, Prayagraj was carried out with two factors having four of each in FRBD. The factors are Varieties (V1 - Winter Dawn, V2 - winter star, V3 - Sweet Charlie, V4 – Chandler) Organic Manures (M0 - No manures, M1 - Biochar 100 %, M2 - Seaweed extract 100%, M3 - Biochar + seaweed extract 50:50 %) which in combination makes 16 treatments. Among the treatments applied the combination of V1M3 (Winter Dawn + Biochar + Sea weed extract 50:50) was found to be best during 2021-22, 2022-23 and pooled data in terms of fruit set % with (8.17, 66.46 and 67.32 %), Number of fruit/plant (35.33, 32.40 and 33.87), Weight of fruit (36.36, 34.90 and 35.63 kg, Yield/plant (812.49, 791.14 and 801.81kg, Yield/plot (9.75, 9.49 and 9.62) kg, and yield/hectare (22.13, 21.51 and 21.82) ton.
Keywords: Strawberry, seaweed extract, biochar, yield, and yield attributes