2024, Vol. 7, Special Issue 9

author(s)
BR Patel, YH Patel, HN Leua, VR Wankhade, SB Patel and BM Nandre

abstract
The present investigation entitled, “Effect of organic inputs on yield and quality of custard apple (Annona squamosa L.)” was conducted at College Farm, College of Horticulture, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Jagudan, Dist. Mehsana during July, 2023 to December, 2023. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design using eight treatments viz., T₁ (75% RDN through Ghanjeevamrut + 25% RDN through FYM), T₂ (75% RDN through Ghanjeevamrut + 25% RDN through Vermicompost), T₃ (75% RDN through Ghanjeevamrut + 25% RDN through Poultry manure), T₄ (75% RDN through Ghanjeevamrut + 25% RDN through Castor cake), T₅ (50% RDN through Ghanjeevamrut + 50% RDN through FYM), T₆ (50% RDN through Ghanjeevamrut + 50% RDN through Vermicompost), T₇ (50% RDN through Ghanjeevamrut + 50% RDN through Poultry manure) and T₈ (50% RDN through Ghanjeevamrut + 50% RDN through Castor cake). These treatments were replicated thrice in open field condition. The distance between plant to plant and row to row is 6 m × 6 m. Result showed that the application of 50% Ghanjeevamrut + 50% Poultry manure (T₇) gave significantly maximum number of fruits per tree (95.13), weight of pulp (86.40 g), weight of peel (96.65 g), weight of fruit (202.78 g), yield per tree (18.16 kg), yield per hectare (5.05 t), TSS (25.67 ºBrix), total sugar (21.30%), reducing sugar (19.38%), non-reducing sugar (1.91%), ascorbic acid (20.45 mg/100 g pulp) and minimum weight of seed (19.73 g) were found better than other treatment of T₇.