Enhancement of cashew yield through foliar feeding of nutrients Gajbhiye RC1*, Pawar SN2, Sawant BN3 1Horticulturist, Regional Fruit Research Station, Vengurla - 416 516, Dist. Sindhudurg (MS) 2JRA, Regional Fruit Research Station, Vengurla - 416 516, Dist. Sindhudurg (MS) 3Jr. Entomologist and Associate Director of Research, Regional Fruit Research Station, Vengurla - 416 516, Dist. Sindhudurg (MS) *Corresponding author Email: rcgajbhiye@yahoo.com, cashewresveng@gmail.com
Abstract The experiment, conducted to access the effect of water soluble nutrients on growth and yield of cashew under rainfed conditions at farmer’s field during the years 2017-18 and 2019-20 with nine treatments viz., control (no spray), urea (2%), 0:52:34 (1% and 2%), 13:0:45 (1% and 2%), 19:19:19 (1% and 2%), using 6 years old trees of cashew cv. Vengurla-4 planted at 7m x 7m spacing, showed that three foliar applications of nutrients at 19:19:19 @ 2 per cent recorded the highest sex ratio (0.24), nut weight (8.50g) and yield (8.58 kg tree-1 and 1.75t ha-1) and appeared best for cashew yield enhancement. Top Keywords Cashew, Flushing, Flowering, Panicle, Rainfed, Water soluble nutrients. Top |