Vol. 11, Issue 3 (2022)

Author(s):
B Santhosha, D Lakshminarayana, P Prasanth, B Chandra Sheker and G Sathish

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted during rabi 2018-2019 at SKLTS Horticultural University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, to study on the effect of micronutrients and their schedule of spray on quality of carrot (Daucus carota L.) cv. New Kuroda. The experiment consists of 14 treatments with seven levels of different combinations of nutrient and two levels of schedule of spray. Among the treatments, foliar spraying of T₆ (zinc, iron, magnesium @ 0.5% + copper @ 0.2% + boron @ 0.5%) at 45 days after sowing registered significantly higher percentage of total soluble solids (13.07%), ascorbic acid content (6.83 mg 100^{- g}), carotene content (4.33 mg100^-g), cortex to core ratio (0.97%), lower percentage of cracked roots (0.13%) and forked roots (3.10%).