• Shuchismita Guha
• Avijit Kr. Dutta

In India, cultivation of strawberry has become popular in plains and hilly areas of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand. The crop is mainly grown in temperate climates, but now it is being successfully grown under subtropical and tropical climates as well. Strawberry is cultivated in most parts of the world either in open fields or in protective conditions of greenhouses and plastic tunnels.The present experiment was conducted during rbi-summer seasons of 2016-17 at the organic experimental farm of the Faculty Centre for Integrated Rural &Tribal Development and Mamagement, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Ranch Campus by employing Strawberry cv. Douglas grown through seven organically designed treatments viz. T1: Amritjal (1%), T2: Amritjal (3%), T3: BD-501 (1%), T4: BD-501 (3%), T5: Shasyagavya (10%); T6: Sanjeevani (10%), and T7: Absolute Control (without any organic formulation).The experiment was designed after RCBD with three replications for each treatment. Several growth, yield and quality attributes of the crop were evaluated and the results revealed that T5 (10% Shasyagavya) is the best treatment in expression ofgrowth and yield attributes. As a consequence, the higher yield(25.02 t ha-1) was obtained from T5 (10% Shasyagavya) treatment. The performance of strawberry was not up to the mark in the case of the treatment where no organic input was applied (T7) and as a consequence, poor yield (3.87 t ha-1) was documented from this treatment. However, different organic treatments performed independently in terms of the expression of quality traits and showed better results than control in this context. Thereby, it may be concluded from the present findings that the variety Douglas of strawberry can be grown successfully in Ranchi areas of the Chhotanagpur plateau without application of any inorganic sources of plant nutrientsincluding protection inputs.

Strawberry;FragariaananassaDuch.; organic farming; growth; yield; quality

"Performance of Organically Grown Strawberry cv. Douglas under the South Chhotanagpur Plateau Region of Jharkhand", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.496-503, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902769.pdf

"Performance of Organically Grown Strawberry cv. Douglas under the South Chhotanagpur Plateau Region of Jharkhand", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp496-503, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902769.pdf