PERFORMANCE OF BARI TOMATO 14 TO DIFFERENT LEVELS CHICKEN EGGSHELL AS A SOURCE OF CALCIUM

A pot experiment was conducted at Horticulture farm, Department of Horticulture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh from October 2013 to March 2014 to study the performance of BARI tomato 14 to chicken eggshells powders. Eggshell viz. T₁ (No eggshell); T₂ (100 g/pot eggshell) and T₃ (200 g/pot eggshell) were used on the experiment using Completely Randomized Design with five replications. Tallest plant (87.7 cm), maximum number of leaves (85.7/plant), number of branches (28.0/plant), number of harvested fruit (31.0/plant), single fruit weight (94.0 g), yield (3.1 kg/plant) was found from T₂ and maximum degree of brix (3.7%), shelf life (13.8 days) from T₃ whereas minimum was found from T₁. Minimum number of calcium deficient symptom showing leaves (4.5/plant) and abnormal fruit (14.2%) was also found from T₂. Minimum chlorophyll content (45.2%) and early flowering (54.3 days) was found from T₃ which was statistically identical with T₂. Eggshells are largely disposed of many bioactive compounds which can improve for the growth, yield and quality of tomato.