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To study the effect of pre-harvest foliar application of nutrients on growth, yield and fruit quality of strawberry cv.Camarosa an experiment was conducted at the Agriculture Research Farm, Department of Agriculture, Mata Gujri College, Sri Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab during the year 2020-22. The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Block Design (RBD) having ten treatments with three replications. Treatments consisted of ZnSO 4 (0.2, 0.4% and 0.6%), FeSO 4 (0.2, 0.4% and 0.6%) and Boron (0.2, 0.4% and 0.6%), while the plants sprayed with water served as the control. The result revealed that plants treated with 0.6% ZnSO 4 showed maximum plant height (26.12 cm), plant spread (35.75 cm), number of leaves per plant (25.00), leaf area (88.65 cm 2 ), leaf area index (4.71), number of flowers per plant (18.67), number of fruits per plant (11.38). However, the plants treated with 0.6% Boron showed highest fruit weight (22.23 g), fruit length (40.11 mm), fruit breadth (39.22 mm), yield per plant (211.12 g), yield per hectare (9.10 tonnes), TSS (10.09 0 B) , total sugar (6.03 %) and titerable acidity (0.88 %). Studies indicated that pre-harvest foliar application of iron, zinc and boron are quiet useful for improving vegetative growth, quality and shelf-life of strawberry cv. Camarosa and getting higher marketable value in subtropical region.