Author(s):

Kavitha P Jadhav, BI Bidari, GB Shashidara and MS Venkatesh

Abstract: A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2016 in the farmer’s field at Agadi village (Tq: Hubbli) in Dharwad district, Karnataka to study the effect of calcium nitrate foliar spray on quality and yield of Byadgi chilli. Quality attributes of chilli fruits revealed that, treatment which received 3 foliar sprays of Ca(NO₃)₂ at 1.5 per cent recorded significantly highest colour value ( 280.22 ASTA units) closely followed by treatment that received three foliar spray of Ca(NO₃)₂ at 1.0 per cent ( 274.66 ASTA units) and treatment with two sprays of Ca(NO₃)₂ at 1.5 per cent ( 272.74 ASTA units ) and highest oleoresin content (20.39 %) with three sprays of 1.5 per cent Ca(NO₃)₂ which was on par with treatments T₈ (19.16 %) and T₃ (16.98 %) that received 1.5 and 1.0 per cent foliar spray of Ca(NO₃)₂ on 75^th DAT respectively but differed significantly from all other treatments. Highest dry fruit yield (21.76 q ha^-1) was observed due to three foliar sprays of Ca(NO₃)₂ at 1.5 per cent and differed significantly from all other treatments. Control which did not receive foliar spray of calcium nitrate recorded lowest quality parameters and yield (12.76 q ha^-1).

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