2023, Vol. 8, Special Issue 5

Alternate bearing is one of the important challenges of the mango industry, there are several practices to overcome alternate bearing and among them use of growth retardants like paclobutrazol have become most effective. Hence an experiment was conducted to study the “assessment of proper doses of Paclobutrazol to mitigating irregular bearing in mango”. The treatment T₃ showed positive effect on fruit set at mustard stage (58.81), Fruit set at pea stage (16.3), Mature Fruits/ panicle (5.77), number of fruits/tree (585), Fruit yield/ tree (134.56 kg) and yield (269.12q/ha) over control in mango. With respect to different treatments of paclobutrazol the treatment T₃ (30 ml) showed highest TSS (20.55 °B), Total sugar (15.46), reducing sugar (4.05), non- reducing sugar (11.57), βcarotene (1.16) and it is on par the treatment T₂. The treatment T₁ showed highest acidity (0.23%), ascorbic acid (37.75 mg/100 g) and it is on par with the treatment T₃. Cost benefit ratio was maximum of 1:5.90 was with T₃ (30 ml paclobutrazol) and least cost benefit ratio of 1:3.90 was with control.