Effect of Nutrient Management on the Growth and Yield of Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i> L.) in Calcareous Soils of Bangladesh

Abstract

An investigation was carried out in the calcareous soil of Chapai Nawabganj belonging to the High Ganges River Floodplain during November 2008 to March 2009 to examine the effect of different macro and micronutrients (N, P, K, S, Zn, B and Mo at 150, 50, 100, 20, 3, 3 and 1 kg/ha, respectively) on the growth and yield of cabbage. Application of different nutrients exhibited significant influence on the growth and yield of cabbage. The highest plant spread (70.76 cm), height (37.89 cm), leaf length (37.83 cm), leaf breadth (27.13 cm), head thickness (12.85 cm), head diameter (23.02 cm), marketable head yield (76.53 t/ha) which is 191% increase over control), early head formation and maturity were recorded from the plot receiving N, P, K and B at the rate of 150, 50, 100 and 3 kg/ha, respectively. The treatment N, P, K and S showed the highest weight of loose leaves (640 g/plant) and decreased the weight of folded leaves or head weight, whereas, the treatment N, P, K and B increased the folded leaves or maximum head weight (1894.18 g/plant).

Effect of biofertilizers and micronutrients on growth and quality attributes of cabbage (<em>Brassica oleracea</em> var. <em>capitata</em> L.)

“…In this way, boron treatment brought about rapid vegetative growth, which subsequently helped in early formation and maturity of heads. The findings are in agreement with Sharma (2012) [21] in broccoli and Naher et al (2014) [16] in cabbage.…”

“…It might be due to the reason that iron act as an important catalyst in the enzymatic reactions of plant metabolism would have helped in the larger biosynthesis of photo assimilates thereby improving diameter of head. The results are in line with the findings of Lashkari et al (2008) [14] in cauliflower, Naher et al (2014) [16] in cabbage and Chaudhari et al (2017) [2] in cabbage.…”

Studies on the Effect of Nitrogen Levels on Growth, Yield Components and Quality of Red Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata f. rubra)

“…Similar findings have been reported in cabbage (Naher et al, 2014 andHope et al, 2017) for head circumference. Whereas, in cabbage (Hossain et al, 2011) and broccoli (Singh et al, 2015) for head length.…”

“…As the nitrogen doses increases, the supply of nutrients and their utilization in plants also increases, which resulted in the more production of metabolites that enhances the production estimated head yield per hectare as well as dry matter production in red cabbage. Similar findings were reported in cabbage (Lavanya et al, 2014;Naher et al, 2014;Mankar et al, 2015), With regarding dry matter production, in cabbage (Akand et al, 2015). 4).…”

“…Successive increase in nitrogen levels decreased the number of days to head harvest and the increase in number of days to head initiation and head harvest might be due to the deficiency nitrogen prevailing during growth period which resulted in delayed head formation. These results are similarity in cabbage (Lavanya et al, 2014 andNaher et al, 2014), cauliflower (Mansoor et al, 2018) and broccolli (Dheerendra et al,2012).…”