Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

The present investigation on “Performance of macro-propagated and sucker grown plants of banana CVS. Jahaji (AAA) and Barjahaji (AAA)” was carried out at the Horticulture Experimental Farm, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat during the year 2017-18 and 2018-19, respectively. The main objective was to see the comparative performance of macro-propagated and sucker grown plants of banana with respect of growth yield and quality. The present experiment was laid out in Factorial RBD with five replications and two factors with two levels. First factor consists macro-propagated plantlets and conventional suckers and in second factor variety was taken as a source of variations. The observations were recorded on growth, yield attributes, quality parameters and mortality. Macro-propagated plantlets of Jahaji’ cultivar is comparatively less susceptible to pest-diseases than Macro-propagated plantlets of ‘Barjahaji’ cultivar. Sucker grown plants were recorded higher percent of mortality than macro-propagated plantlets. Treatments are Macro-propagated plantlets (P₁), Conventional suckers (P₂), Jahaji’ (V₁), ‘Barjahaji’ (V₂) and Interactions are Macro-propagated plantlets of ‘Jahaji’(P₁V₁), P₁V₂: Macro-propagated plantlets of ‘Barjahaji’ (P₁V₂), Conventional suckers of ‘Jahaji’ (P₂V₁), Conventional suckers of ‘Barjahaji’ (P₂V₂). Minimum mortality per cent was observed in the treatment P₁ (0.52%), V₁ (4.59%) and maximum mortality rate were observed in the treatment P₂ (9.94%), treatment V₂ (5.85%) respectively.