Inorganic Fertilization Effects on Growth Yield and Fruit Quality of Plantain cv Nendran

摘要

A study was carried out to investigate the effect of different inorganic fertilization rates on performance of Plantain cv Nendran at Terai Zone of West Bengal. Plants were subjected to the following nine different treatment combinations of inorganicfertilizers and results revealed that availability of ma-cronutrients was significantly affected by fertilizer application rates and highest values of macronutri-ents availability were obtained under T9 (N25|l Pg0 g plant~(-1)). Leaf N. P and K content were increased with nitrogen and potassium applied as compared with the control. It is clear that adding N and K fertilizer at higher dose resulted in greater bunch weight and number of fingers. Fruit total soluble solids; total sug-ars and TSS/acid ratio were also significantly increased with increasing N and K application rates. Generally, it could be concluded that the treatment of T9 (Ny,g plant~(-1)) seems to be the promisingtreatment which produced the highest vegetative growth, yield and improved fruit quality under these experimental conditions due to improving nutritional status of studied soil.