Author(s): B. C. DAS, S. MAJI AND S. ROY MULIEH

Abstract: The experiment was carried out at the Horticulture Research Station, Mondouri, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal ,during the year 2007 to evaluate the effect of organic and inorganic mulching materials on growth, fruiting and fruit quality of guava, grown on new alluvial zone of West Bengal. Different soil covers i.e. Tr Cover crops (cowpea), Tr Sugarcane trash (JO cm thickness), Tr Saw dust (5 cm thickness), T4 Dry leaves (guava leaves -10 cm thickness), Ts- Paddy straw (10 cm thickness), T 0 Black polythene (250 gauge) and Tr White polythene (250 gauge) were used for the experiment with no mulching as control (I\'s). In mulching, the treatment T6 i.e., plants under black polythene produced maximum number of fruits (347.95) as well as highest yield (47.05 kg) per plant. However, different treatments under study showed increased in fruit weight and size, higher TSS, total sugar, reducing sugar, non- reducing sugar, TSS / Acid ratio and vitamin C content of fruits and reduced acidity over control, but paddy straw was found to be effective to improve the fruit quality of guava.

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