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Present experiment carried out at Vegetable Farm, FOA (SKUAS-K) Wadura, Kashmir (India) to determine the influence of Farmyard manure (FYM) and Zinc nutrition on pea productivity. The experiment was set up in Factorial RBD with sixteen treatments and three replications. Pea variety PS-1100 was taken as experimental material. Growth height, yield attributing characteristics, and pod yield were recorded and statistically analysed. Both Zinc and FYM nutrition treatments showed a substantial impact on plant growth, yield and yield attributing characters in pea. Results revealed that treatment combination of Zinc at 5 kg ha-1 + FYM at 350 q ha-1 outperformed than other treatment combinations in terms of maximum pods plant-1 (20.8), length of pods (9.4 cm), grain pod-1 (9.8), pod weight (12.7g) and pod yield (71.2 q ha-1). In conclusion, Zinc at 5 kg ha-1 + FYM at 350 q ha-1 is an effective dosage for maximizing pea pod production about 11.0 per cent greater than the control in Kashmir conditions.

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Cucumber is one of the essential summer vegetable crop grown among cucurbits and highly dependent upon diverse insect pollinators for efficient pollination and production of good quality fruits. Seven treatments viz., Jaggery solution (10%), Sugar syrup (10%), Molasses (10%), Sugarcane juice (10%), fish waste, Untreated control and water as negative control were applied during the experiment. The attributes that contribute maximum in terms of yield such as number of fruits/plant (8.87 ± 0.14). fruit length (26.02 ± 0.47 cm), fruit diameter (5.77 ± 0.02 cm), fruit weight (350.27 ± 0.09 g), Number of seeds/fruit (453.07 ± 4.98), yield/ha (222.50 ± 4.78 q) and fruit set (69.74 ± 0.62 %) was recorded with Jaggery solution (10%) followed by sugar syrup (10%) with number of fruits/plant as 8.87 ± 0.14, fruit length 25.07 ± 0.18 cm, fruit diameter 5.60 ± 0.04 cm, fruit weight 0.321 ± 0.01 kg, number of seeds/fruit 423.65 ± 1.97, yield/ha 190.00 ± 0.16 q and fruit set as 62.38 ± 0.68 %, followed by molasses (10 %), sugarcane juice (10%) and fish waste respectively. Compared to the control, each treatment was found significantly superior. The plants which were kept untreated failed to produce fruits with highest yield attributing characters thus, signifying the importance of attractants in enhancing production of cucumber.

The present study aimed to determine the effect of postharvest salicylic acid (SA) application on storability and biochemical quality of strawberry fruits cv. Chandler under ambient storage conditions. Freshly harvested fruits were subjected to salicylic acid treatment at 0 (control), 0.5, 1 or 2 mM and fruits were stored at room temperature for 6 days storage studies. Data on physiological loss in weight (PLW), fruit spoilage and biochemical quality of fruits (total soluble soils, titratable acidity, ascorbic acid, reducing and total sugars) were recorded. Results showed that postharvest salicylic acid treatment significantly minimized the PLW and fruit spoilage. At 6 days of storage, the lowest PLW (14.43 %) and fruit spoilage (21.70 %) was observed with SA at 2 mM. All the salicylic acid treatments were effective in retaining the biochemical quality of fruit (total soluble soils, titratable acidity, ascorbic acid, reducing and total sugars). In conclusion, Salicylic acid at 2 mM treatment of strawberry fruits after harvest can be useful in minimizing PLW and fruit spoilage and also maintaining the biochemical quality of fruits during ambient storage conditions.