Effect of Foliar Application of Nano Urea, Boron and Zinc Sulphate on Growth Fruit Yield and Quality of Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) cv. Winter Dawn

Abstract

The present experiment was conducted at Department of Horticulture, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj. Prayagraj during the session 2023 - 2024. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with three replications, and the study consists of Ten treatment combinations including control by using different Effect of Foliar Application of Nano Urea, Boron and Zinc sulphate On Growth Fruit Yield and Quality of Strawberry. The best treatment was T9 (Nano urea 1.5% + Zinc Sulphate 0.6% + Boron 0.6%) &T8 (Nano urea 1.5% + Zinc Sulphate 0.4% + Boron 0.4%) which shows highest values in all the parameters viz., Petiole length 90 DAT (10.00 cm), number of leaf/plant (36.95), plant spread N-S (cm) (35.69 cm), plant spread E-W (cm) (32.01 cm), runner production/plant (8.56), Fruit length (mm) (62.50 mm), Fruit width (39.67 mm), Fresh weight (g) (31.86), Number of fruit/plant (17.52), Fruit yield/ha. (54.79 q), TSS (11.29 brix), Vitamin C (50.83 mg/100 g), Acidity (0.57%). All the treatments were significantly superior in their growth, flowering, fruit yield and quality of strawberry over control (T0) and (T9).