FOLIAR APPLICATION OF FERTIMIX ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF TOMATO VARIETIES

Abstract

An experiment was conducted at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from October, 2017 to April, 2018 to evaluate the effect of foliar application of fertimix on growth and yield of tomato varieties. Six tomato varieties and four levels of foliar application had been used in this experiment. Tomato varieties were BARI Tomato-14 (V BARI Tomato-2 (V 2 ), Roma-VF (V 3 ), Apple Netherland (V ii 4 ), Sweden 5 (V ), TM 0.2 (V ) and level of foliar applications were; Control (No foliar application, T 6 0 ), Spraying once (T 1 ) , Spraying twice (T ), Spraying three times (T 3 2 ). The experiment was outlined in Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. Significant variation was found with the treatments. Among varieties maximum cluster number (8.67/plant), flower number (90.83/plant), fruit number (43.53/plant), fruit yield (98.62 t/ha) was found from V 6 and minimum fruit yield (64.07 t/ha) was found from V . Spraying three times (T ) gave superior results for all parameters than other foliar applications. Highest fruit yield (101.10 t/ha) was found from combination V 6 T 3 3 and lowest yield (61.07 t/ha) was found from combination V . It can be concluded that, spraying three times on TM 0.2 variety provided best result for growth and yield of tomato.