Cultural practices were followed as

Cultural practices were followed as per the package of practices
for rain-fed mulberry as described by Dandin et al. (2003). Bottom
pruning was carried out during the last week of June, 2006 and
2007 just at the onset of main rainy season. After one and two
weeks of bottom pruning the inorganic fertilizers, bio-inoculants and
FYM were applied as per the treatment details. Observations on
fresh leaf yield and moisture percentage were recorded by
harvesting the fresh leaves from five randomly selected and tagged
plants from each plot 45 and 60 days after bottom pruning for two
seasons. Leaves were harvested individually plant wise, weighed
and then mean leaf yield per plant was determined. But observation
on other quality variables viz., chlorophyll, crude protein, total
soluble protein, total soluble sugars and NPK content of the leaf
were made on the second crop 60 days after bottom pruning.