PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED PARAMETERS OF MANGO CULTIVARS IN MUZAFFARGARH DISTRICT (PUNJAB), PAKISTAN

The experiment was conducted in a private mango orchard at Muzaffargarh District, Pakistan during 2009. The main objective of this research was to evaluate the performance of selected mango cultivars. Ten mango cultivars (Yakta, Alphanso, Anwar Ratual, Dosehri, Fajri, Safed Chaunca, Langra, Malda, Sindhri and Alishan) were selected. The parameters to be observed included time of flowering, days to fruit setting, fruit weight, days to fruit maturity and yield. The results indicated that Yakta, Malda and Langra were the earliest cultivars (i.e. fruit maturity on June 7th), while Fajri and Alishan were the late ones (i.e fruit maturity in the 3rd week of July). Heaviest weight (455.90 gm) of a single fruit was noted in cultivar Fajri, while highest yield was obtained from cultivar langra (140 kg/tree). The LSD values from the statistical analysis indicated that the differences among the fruit yield per tree of ten cultivars of Mango (P 0.01) were significant. Based on these results it was concluded that cultivars Langra, Malda, Fajri, Safed Chaunsa and Anwar Ratual were successfully grown and had the highest yields (kg/tree) under Muzaffargarh District’s environment.