Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
RS Wankhade, YD Charjan, NH Ramteke and HH Dikey

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted at Agriculture Research Station, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Achalpur, (M.S.), India to select best suited variety of arid fruit crop pomegranate for commercial cultivation under Achalpur condition of Amravati district of Maharashtra state during 2015-16 to 2017-18. Maximum plant height, stem diameter, number of fruits plant^-1, fruit weight and yield ha ^-1 was recorded in Bhagwa followed by Arakta cultivar of pomegranate. Whereas, significantly minimum plant height, stem diameter, number of fruits plant^-1, fruit weight (g) and yield ha^-1 was recorded with the Ganesh variety of pomegranate.