Abstract:
The experiment was conducted at Horticulture Farm, Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka, during the period from Feb - July 2017, to
study the influence of organic leachates on growth and yield of bitter gourd.
Three treatments viz. BARI fertilizer dose (basal) used as control (T
) BARI
fertilizer dose (basal) + cowdung leachate as top dressing (T
), BARI fertilizer
dose (basal) + vermicompost leachate as topdressing (T
3
2
) were studied in this
experiment. These treatments were arranged in Randomized Complete Block
Design with three replications. Significant variation was observed at different
growth and yield parameters of bitter gourd with different treatments.
Maximum plant height (2.85m), leaf number per plant (17.33), number of
branch per plant (12.88), number of flower per plant (37.11), fruit number per
plant (19.00), fruit weight (94.72 g), yield/plant (1.68 kg) and total yield (9.89
t/ha) were found from T
whereas minimum plant height (2.75m), leaf number
per plant (11.88), number of branch per plant (9.55), number of flower per
plant (30.22), fruit number per plant (14.33), fruit weight (76.37g ), yield/plant
(1.056 kg) and total yield ( 6.38 t/ha) from T
3
treatment (control). This study
suggests that T
3
1
treatment acts as a potential source of plant nutrients for
suitable bitter gourd production.
1
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to
The Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree
of
MASTERS OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
HORTICULTURE
SEMESTER: JANUARY-JUNE, 2018
