EFFECT OF ALTERNATE FURROW IRRIGATION AND DIFFERENT FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT ON THE YIELD PERFORMANCE OF BABY CORN

Abstract

The present investigation was conducted at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka during the period from January to March, 2018 to study the effect of alternate furrow irrigation and varying fertilizer management on the yield performance of baby corn. Two irrigation treatments viz. I (Conventional irrigation) and I A C (Alternate furrow irrigation); and six fertilizer managements viz. F 0 (No fertilizer application; control), F (Recommended doses of fertilizer), F 2 1 (125% of recommended doses of fertilizer), F (75% of the recommended doses of fertilizer), F (50% of the recommended doses of fertilizer) and F 5 4 (25% of recommended doses of fertilizer) were considered for treatments of the study. Both the irrigation and fertilizer treatments showed significant variation on most of the studied parameters. In respect of combined effect of irrigation and fertilizer, the highest cob diameter (7.03 cm), cob length (18.00 cm), fresh single cob weight with husk at harvest (46.07 g), total fresh weight plant -1 at harvest (795.3 g), fresh weight plant -1 at harvest (145.5 g), dry weight plant -1 without husk at harvest (95.67 g), dry weight of 5 cobs with husk (78.05 g), dry weight of single cob without husk (7.74 g), fresh 5 cob weight without husk at harvest (96.01) and fresh cob yield without husk (2.40 t ha ) were observed from the combination treatment I A F whereas, the respective lowest values were found from treatment combination of I 1 C F 0 . 3 -1