Effect of City-Compost on Plant Growth, Fruit Yield and Quality of Strawberry cv. Festival in Nagaland

Abstract

The present study on effect of different doses of city-compost were conducted including the dose of Nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium through chemical fertilizer as control (T1= NPK @ 100:60:150 Kg ha -1) and it comprises of eight treatments as a total (T2= City-compost @1. 25 t ha-1, T3= City-compost @ 2.5 t ha-1, T4= City-compost @ 3.5 t ha-1, T5= City-compost @ 4 t ha-1, T6= City-compost @ 5t ha-1, T7= City-compost @ 5.5t ha-1, T8= City-compost @ 6 t ha-1). Under growth parameters T1   gave the maximum plant spread, leaf area, number of runners and number of fruits per plant (6.33). Under yield parameters fruit size in terms of length was obtained highest in T4 (4.15 cm) and in diameters T1 gave the maximum size (2.81 cm). Maximum yield were found under T1 (81.43 g plant-1). Under quality parameters, total soluble solids (TSS) (8.03 °Brix), non-reducing sugar (2.87 %), total sugar (5.20 %) and vitamin C (41.67 mg/l00ml) were recorded maximum in T4 as compared to other treatments.