Importance of Potash in bitter gourd crops

Importance of Potash in bitter gourd crops
  • Potash is an essential element for good crop production.

  • A balanced amount of potash enhances resistance to many adverse conditions in the bitter gourd crop such as diseases, pests, nutritional deficiency etc.

  • Enhancing lustre, increase in weight and  crop yield, quality of  in bitter gourd fruit  

  • Potash helps in the development of good roots and strong stems in the crop, due to which the grip of the plant in the soil is strengthened.

  • A balanced amount of potash develops water retention capacity in the soil.

  • The deficiency of it affects the growth of bitter gourd crops.

  • The color of the leaves becomes darker.

  • Due to lack of potash, the old leaf of the crop turns yellow from the edges and the tissue of the leaf dies, later the leaf becomes dry.

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