Vol. 2 (2) : March-April 2011 issue
Green Farming Vol. 2 (2) : 210-212 (March-April, 2011) (New Series)
Effect of post-shooting treatments on yield and it’s attributes of banana (Musa paradisiacaL.) cv. Grand Nain
C.M. PATEL1*, N.L. PATEL2, S.S. GAIKWAD3 and S.J. PATIL4*
ASPEE College of Horticulture and Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari - 396 450 (Gujarat)
Designation : 1Asst. Director of Horticulture, 2Dean & Principal, 3,4Asstt. Professor (Hort.), * Correspondence
Subject : Fruit Science and Pomology
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C.M. PATEL, N.L. PATEL, S.S. GAIKWAD and S.J. PATIL. 2011. Effect of post-shooting treatments on yield and it’s attributes of banana (Musa paradisiaca L.) cv. Grand Nain. Green Farming Vol. 2 (2) : 210-212 (March-April, 2011) (New Series)
ABSTRACT
An experiment was conducted at Regional Horticultural Research Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari to study the effect of post-shooting treatments on yield, quality and maturity of banana (Musa paradisiaca L.) cv. 'Grand Nain' during the year 2004-05. Twenty treatment combinations, consisting of two levels of sleeving viz., no sleeving (S0) and sleeving (S1) and ten chemical treatments viz., GA3 (50 and 100 mg l-1), NAA (50 and 100 mg l-1), 2, 4-D (10 and 20 mg l-1), Ethephon (0.1 and 0.2 ml l-1), Urea 2 per cent and Control (water spray) was laid out in factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications. The banana bunches covered with blue polythene sleeve shortened the maturity period and gave maximum production of superior quality bunches having large and better quality fruits. The banana bunches cv. 'Grand Nain' when sprayed with ethephon 0.2 ml l-1 shortened the maturity period. Whereas, bunches sprayed with GA3 100 mg l-1 produced maximum yield contributed by bigger size bunch having superior quality fingers. The interaction between sleeving treatment and chemicals failed to show any significant effect on all the characters.
Key words :
2, 4-D, banana, ethephon and urea, GA3, grain nain, musa paradisiaca, NAA, sleeving.