Seed yield of linseed varieties grown as ‘paira’ crop as influenced by dates of sowing

Abstract

Abstract:Linseed is an industrial crop cultivated for its seeds, fibres and oil purpose. Linseed crop can met their requirement i.e. moisture and nutritional demand from stored soil moisture and residual fertility status in "utera" or "paira" system of cropping. On the basis of this fact an experiment was conducted on "Seed yield of linseed varieties grown as paira crop as influenced by dates of sowing" in red and laterite zone of West Bengal during rabi season of 2012-13 and 2013-14 at Rice Research Station, Bankura, West Bengal, India. Poor in organic matter content, available phosphate and bases, hard structure of iron and aluminium patterned as honeycomb are present in the subsurface regions of the profiles and kaolinite is the predominant clay minerals of red and lateritic zone (western part) of West Bengal. This experiment was laid out in a split-plot design with three replications and compared two factors (dates of sowing and linseed varieties). Objective was identifying the optimum date of sowing and suitable linseed varieties grown as "paira" crop under changed climate in red and laterite zone of West Bengal. as pooled value). Lowest seed yield (409. 3 kg ha -1 as pooled data) was recorded from Neela variety. From the present study it may be concluded that linseed sown on 15 th November is the best time and T-397 is the suitable linseed variety grown as "paira" crop under changed climate in red and laterite zone of West Bengal.

Effect of Sowing Dates and Compound Fertilizer NPK on Growth and Yield of Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.)

“…capsule -1 and 1000 seed weight (Tables 6, 7 and 8) which increase seed yield in the date of sowing (November 17). This result agreement with those of Rahimi (2014), Jana et al (2018) and Kumari (2020).…”

“…plant -1 (Table 5) in the first date. This result is in conformity with Jana et al (2018), Emam (2019) and Kumari (2020).…”

“…(Abd El-Daiem & El-Borhamy, 2015). Jana et al (2018) found when using of three sowing dates (15 November, 22 November and 29 November) indicated the superiority of the first date (15 November) in the characters no. of capsules plant -1 , seed yield and seed oil percentage.…”

Effect of Tillage practices and Foliar Spray of Micronutrients on Growth, Yield Components and Yield of Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) in Rice-Fallow System

“…Lathryus (Lathyrus sativus L.) is one of the popular rabi-season pulse crops in West Bengal, occupied an area of 97.1 thousand hectares with a production of 85.9 thousand tonnes during 2019-20 (Anonymous, 2022). After harvest of kharif rice farmers get considerably less yield from second crops (0.2-0.3 t ha -1 ) grown as paira crop on residual moisture as it faces severe water scarcity at the later stages of growth (Sorokhaibam et al, 2016, Jana et al, 2018, Deka et al, 2021. Indian agriculture is entering into a new era of post green revolution and conservation agriculture is gaining importance due to widespread resource degradation, economic benefit, and sustainability in food production (Nazeer et al, 2012, Grace et al, 2012, Corsi et al, 2012, Bhan and Behera, 2014, Saha et al, 2020, Yadav et al, 2020.Though the adaptation of conservation tillage is at its initial stage in Indian agricultural scenario, conservation agricultural techniques to minimize loss of soil moisture and progresses seeding though developed for large scale mechanized agriculture need to be adopted for rabi pulses also (Sharma et al, 2016, Ramesh et al, 2019.…”