Abstract

Owing to immense health benefits, now-a-days Chinese broccoli has gained special concern for its better growth, development and yield worldwide. Therefore, the present study was undertaken during 2019-20 at Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh to investigate the influence of different sources of nutrients on the growth, yield contributing characters and seed yield of Chinese broccoli. Four fertilizer treatments were used as the sources of different nutrients, viz-litter (25 t/ha), urea (0.15 t/ha), manure (25 t/ha) and control (no fertilizer) with three replications in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). Application of litter showed significantly the best performance in respect of growth and yield related parameters, like-root (12.8 cm) and shoot (50.26 cm) length; leaf area (1119.06 cm2/plant) and number (13.63/plant); fresh (130.35 g/plant) and dry weight (14.5 g/plant); length of main raceme (114.53 cm); number (7.5) and length (76.5 cm) of primary branch; total number of siliqua (182.92/plant); seed yield (12.72 g/ plant and 0.59 kg/plot); husk yield (15.25 g/plant and 0.68 kg/plot); biological yield (1.27 kg/plot) and harvest index (46.53%) as compared to the other treatments. Meanwhile, all of these parameters were found lower under control (no fertilizer treated) condition. So, for obtaining the highest growth and yield of Chinese broccoli, organic source of nutrients, i.e., litter, was found the best treatment among the other sources of nutrients.