EFFECT OF DIFFERENT TRAINING SYSTEMS ON INCIDENCE OF PEST, DISEASES AND YIELD OF BITTER GOURD (MOMORDICA CHARANTIA L.) CV. KONKANTARA UNDER KONKAN CONDITIONS OF MAHARASHTRA

摘要

Bower system of training had significantly less infestation of fruit fly (3.32%) as well as significantly minimum incidence of different disease viz., anthracnose (27.72%), powdery mildew (23.80%) and downy mildew (30.80%) and recorded significantly more number of fruits per plant (30.46), longer and dark green fruits with maximum yield (78.25 q/ha) and was found significantly superior over all other training systems. The per cent increase in yield over ground system was 71.83,200.65 and 243.80 in bush, kniffin and bower training systems, respectively which might be due to lowest infestation of fruit fly and incidence of major diseases.