ADVANCED FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR MULBERRY (Morus SPP.) PLANT PRODUCTION

The low yield of mulberry plant (Morus SPP.) at Bangladesh is attributed to poor fertilizer management practices. A field experiment was conducted at Bangladesh Sericulture Research and Training Institute, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The aim of the experiment was to find out the comparative effect of different fertilizer management system on the mulberry plant production. Four fertilizer management practices were control, basal, urea and magic growth (liquid fertilizer) were applied on mulberry plant (Morus SPP.) with three replications. Fertilizer was applied as a foliar spray. The experiment duration was one year and data were collected four times during experiment period. Result showed that liquid fertilizer produces highest mulberry plant production followed by control, basal and urea fertilizer management practices. Total weight per plant was three times higher in liquid fertilizer treatment followed by control treatment. Likewise, leaf area (cm2) was twice in magic growth treatment compared to other fertilizer management practices. Result also demonstrated that total branch number per mulberry plant did not differ in various fertilizer management practices. This could be due to presence of maximum macro and micro nutrient availability of liquid fertilizer as well as effective utilization of nutrients by mulberry plants in foliar application of magic growth. Our study concluded that foliar application of liquid fertilizer or magic growth is the best fertilizer management practices for mulberry plant production.