Authors: Most. Sakiara Islam, Md. Jafar Ullah, Nahida Sultana, Muslima Jahan Runia and Nabila Hasan
*Corresponding author’s Email: sakiislam28@yahoo.com
Abstract
An experiment was carried out at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka in the tenure of from January to March, 2018 to evaluate the effect of alternate furrow irrigation and varying fertilizer management on the yield performance of baby corn. Two irrigation methods 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 tested. Both the individual and that of the combined effects of the treatments varied significantly in respect of most of the parameters studied. In respect of combined effect of irrigation and fertilizer, the highest cob diameter (7.03 cm), cob length (18.00 cm), fresh single cob weight with husk at harvest (46.07 g), dry weight of single cob without husk (7.74 g) and fresh cob yield without husk (2.40 t ha-1) were observed from the combination treatment IAF1 whereas, the respective lowest values were found from treatment combination of ICF0.
Keywords: Alternate furrow irrigation, baby corn, fertilizer.
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J. Expt. Biosci.11(1) January 2020
