Progressive Agriculture
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 1

Effect of integrated nutrient management on seed quality attributes at different fruit pickings of tamato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)

1G.B. Pant University of Agriculture. & Technology, Pantnagar. US.Nagar (Uttarakand-263 145)

2Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Murad Nagar, Ghaziabad, UP (S.V.P. University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut)

Department of Seed Science & Technology, College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture. & Technology, Pantnagar, U.S. Nagar (Uttarakand-263 145)

Online published on 18 April, 2019.

Abstract

Effect of integrated nutritional treatments, consisting of various organic sources viz., FYM. Poultry manure, neem cake, Azotobacter, VAM, PSB and pea crop residue along with the inorganic fertilizers was tested on seed quality attributes of tomato at different fruit pickings. The fruits harvested in the first picking resulted in greatest 1000 seed weight, germination per centage, seedling length and seedling vigour index having considerable differences over the late pickings. Among different treatments the application of VAM + 50% P and full dose Nand K through fertilizers proved best almost in all the fruit picking with respect with respect to all the above seed quality attributes closely followed by the application of PSB+75% P and full dose of Nand K through fertilizers.

Keywords

Tomato, residual effect, INM, picking and seed quality