Influence of Organic Manure and Seedling Age on Growth and Yield of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) cv. Ayaan
Amita Choudhary*, Anshul Asre, Dilip Pathak, Aayushi Singh, Gulshan Pandey and Pooja Joddar
Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology AKS University Sherganj, Satna - 485001 (M.P.), India
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Abstract:
An experiment was conducted on seedling age of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) at the student instructional field, department of Horticulture, AKS University sherganj, satna (M.P.) during rabi 2023-24. There were 12 treatments of seedlings age viz. 25, 30, 35 days old which were tested in RBD with factorial concept. The results revealed that poultry manure@2ton/ha and 25 days old seedlings recorded highest values of plant height (53.46cm), maximum number of branches per plant (18.40), maximum number of leaves per plant (102.83), maximum number of days taken to 1st flowering (46.13), number of days taken to 50% flowering (43.93), number of fruits/plant (27.60), fruit weight/plant (54.61 g), fruit yield/plot (21.56kg), fruit yield/ha (507.81q/ha), and fruit diameter (4.00 cm) were found are most suitable for transplanting of tomato during rabi season to get higher crop yield in vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh.
Keywords: Tomato, Seedlings age, Plant growth, Yield attributes
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Amita Choudhary, Anshul Asre, Dilip Pathak, Aayushi Singh, Gulshan Pandey and Pooja Joddar. 2025. Influence of Organic Manure and Seedling Age on Growth and Yield of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) cv. Ayaan.
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