GROWTH AND YIELD OF OKRA AS INFLUENCED BY DIFFERENT LEVELS OF NITROGEN

An experiment was conducted at Horticulture Farm, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh from April to August 2012 to evaluate the different doses of nitrogen on growth and yield of okra (BARI Dherosh-1). Experiment consisted four levels of nitrogen viz. N₀: 0, N₁: 110, N₂: 120 and N₃: 130 kg N/ha using Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. Maximum plant height (86.2 cm), number of leaves (43.8/plant), leaf length (28.8 cm), petiole length (23.1 cm), stem diameter (2.3 cm), internode length (14.3 cm), number of branches (4.0/plant), fruit length (16.8 cm), fruit diameter (1.9 cm), number of flower buds (29.4/plant), weight of individual fruit (11.6 g), fresh weight of leaves (298.4 g/plant), dry matter content of leaves (12.0%) and yield (7.1 kg/plot and 16.4 t/ha) was found from N₂ whereas minimum from N₀.