Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 30, No 4 (2017)

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Effect of colour plastic mulching at different drip irrigation levels on growth and yield of brinjal (Solanum melongena L.)

S. SREEDEVI, B. MAHESHWARA BABU, KAVITA KANDPAL, U. SATISHKUMAR, P. S. KANANNAVAR

Abstract


A field experiment was carried out during 2017 at Research Farm, Department of Soil and Water Engineering,College of Agricultural Engineering, Raichur to study the effect of different colour plastic mulching at different dripirrigation levels on growth and yield of brinjal crop. The experiment was laid out in spilt plot design with 12 treatmentcombination with 3 main plot with irrigation levels viz., I1-Drip irrigation at 60 per cent ET, I2- Drip irrigation at 80 per centET, I3- Drip irrigation at 100 per cent ET and subplot with mulch treatment viz., without mulch, white on black colourmulch, silver on black colour mulch and black plastic mulch. The results revealed that 80 per cent ET with silver colourmulch enhanced the plant height, number of branches, leaf area index, fruit length, fruit size, fruit weight, number of fruitsand crop yield at 5 per cent level of significance.

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