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Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2019)

Fruit quality of ‘Grand Naine’ (AAA) banana as influenced by varied components of precision farming system


Author(s): Utpal Das and RK Bhattacharyya

Abstract: ‘Grand Naine’ is a cultivar of the well-known Cavendish group of bananas. Banana is a mesophytic plant and requires heavy feeding of nutrients and soil moisture for good growth and development leading to production of a heavy bunch as well as quality fruits. High water use efficiency can be achieved by installing drip fertigation which results in uniform in plant growth, reduces implementation cost for fertilizers, reduces weed infestation and also labour requirement, reduces soil erosion and reduces salinity hazards and more crop productivity per unit area with good quality fingers. A study was carried out in the Experimental Farm, Department of Horticulture, Assam Agricultural University, during 2014-15 to evaluate the efficacy of the varied components of precision farming system comprising drip irrigation (80% ER), fertigation (75% RDF), micronutrient foliar spray (Commercial formulation ‘Tracel’2%) at 2, 3, 5 months after planting, bunch sprays of sulphate of potash(2%) first after full bunch emergence and second at 30 days after first spray as well as black LDPE film (50µ) mulch over the traditional system of soil nutrient application(110g N,33g P2O5 and 330g k2O) and flood irrigation (15 day intervals) in ‘Grand Naine’ banana. Components of precision farming significantly increased fruit qualitative characters. The results indicated that qualities were significantly influenced by all the treatments over control. Treatment consisting all combinations of precision farming components with drip-fertigation, micronutrient foliar spray, bunch spray with potassium and black LDPE film mulch produced fruits with higher TSS (23.53⁰Brix), sugar-acid ratio (77.28), highest reducing sugar (9.05%), non-reducing sugar (15.68%), total sugar (24.73%) and pulp-peel ratio (2.42). Hence, considering the positive effect on quality of banana fruits, combinations of precision farming components may be recommended for commercial banana culture.

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How to cite this article:
Utpal Das, RK Bhattacharyya. Fruit quality of ‘Grand Naine’ (AAA) banana as influenced by varied components of precision farming system. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(3):4475-4478.
 

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