Authors: Most. Sakiara Islam, Md. Jafar Ullah, Nahida Sultana, Muslima Jahan Runia and Nurjahan Shithi
*Corresponding author’s Email: sakiislam28@yahoo.com
Abstract
The present investigation was conducted at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka during the period from January to March, 2018 to study the effect of alternate furrow irrigation and varying fertilizer management on the yield performance of baby corn. Two irrigation treatments viz. IC (Conventional irrigation) and IA (Alternate furrow irrigation); and six fertilizer managements viz. F0 (No fertilizer application; control), F1 (Recommended doses of fertilizer), F2 (125% of recommended doses of fertilizer), F3 (75% of the recommended doses of fertilizer), F4 (50% of the recommended doses of fertilizer) and F5 (25% of recommended doses of fertilizer) were considered for treatments of the study. Both the irrigation and fertilizer treatments showed significant variation on most of the studied parameters. In respect of combined effect of irrigation and fertilizer, the highest plant height (222.2 cm), number of leaves plant-1, stem base diameter (2.46 cm), total fresh weight plant-1 at harvest (795.3 g), fresh weight plant-1 at harvest (145.5 g), dry weight plant-1 without husk at harvest (95.67 g), dry weight of 5 cobs with husk (78.05 g), fresh 5 cob weight without husk at harvest (96.01) were observed from the combination treatment IAF1 whereas, the respective lowest values were found from treatment combination of ICF0.
Keywords: Baby corn, Furrow irrigation, Fertilizer management, Plant parameters.
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