INFLUENCE OF ORGANIC MANURING ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF STRAWBERRY Cv. CHANDLER
Muhammad Younas 1 and Rifat Ali 2*
1Department of Horticulture, 2Department of Plant Pathology,
The University of Agriculture, Peshawar-Pakistan
ABSTRACT
The research work was conducted at Newly Developmental Farm (NDF), Horticulture Section, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan during 2012. The objective was to find out the optimum dose of Farm yard manure and poultry manure for the growth and yield of Strawberry plants and to find out the survival rate of cultivar Chandler of Strawberry during the frost of the fall season. In this study, organic matter, farmyard manure and poultry manure were used for percent plant survival, plant height (cm), number of branches plant-1 and number of leaves plant-1 of Strawberry Cv. Chandler where the greater percentage of plant survival, plant height, number of branches and leaves were obtained in plants treated with farmyard manure compared to poultry manure.
