Yield, Dry Matter and Specific Gravity of Exportable Potato: Response to Salt

Abstract

Maintaining exportable standard of potato is the main bottleneck for the Bangladeshi potato growers and exporters. Bangladesh producing large amount of potato which may give much contribution in world market in future especially in European countries. But, yield and quality of potato is varying with some factors i.e., abiotic, biotic, varietal and nutritional, respectively. From these perspectives, the study was carried out under pot experiment at two consecutive years with due, that; applied chloride may influence the performance of tuber in major salt affected areas where the people wants to grow potato in their field. The experiment consisted of four salt application doses (N0 = non-saline, N1 = 5, N2 = 15 and N3 = 25g NaCl pot-1) and three varieties (V1= Granula, V2 = Lady Rosetta and V3 = Asterix). The pot was arranged following completely randomized design (CRD) with 3 replications. Result revealed that; yield, dry matter and specific gravity were decreased with the increasing of salinity levels. Results demonstrated that, non-saline condition of pot soil is favorable for getting the maximum return from studied parameters. Granula and Lady Rosetta performed the significant similar results in case of studied parameters. Although, Granula showed highest specific gravity at 5g NaCl plot -1 which was statistically similar to non-saline condition but, Granula exhibited the highest yield and dry matter under non-saline condition of pot soil. Similar trend was also found in case of Lady Rosetta whereas Asterix performed worst one under highest condition of soil salinity. In, conclusion, it may be said that; potato has sensitivity on salinity for its performances, so, the salt tolerance/salt avoidance varieties should be introduced/developed in our country and the further research should be carried out with how much amount of EC of salinity can be tolerated by exportable potato varieties.