Performance of Mustard Genotypes Under Gangetic West Bengal Condition

Abstract

The Brassica species commonly includes Rapeseed-Mustard are grown in 67 countries in Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Australia. India ranks third and fourth in area and production of Rapeseed-Mustard, respectively. Rapeseed-Mustard in India consists of eight different species. Among the different species, Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L) Czern and Coss] is most important covering more than 80% area. The diverse agro-ecological condition of West Bengal is favourable for growing Rapeseed-Mustard crop. Although there are several factors for poor yield of mustard in West Bengal but late sowing due to late harvesting of kharif / Aman paddy is the most important factor which reduces productivity due to force maturity and infestation of pest and diseases. Most of the varieties are presently cultivated are medium and late duration, often faces high temperature at the time of harvest resulting poor seed yield and seed quality. Identification of early maturing varieties (within 100 days) with good seed quality character can boost up productivity of rape seed-mustard in this state. With this background, the present investigation was conducted to identify promising mustard entries having good seed quality characters. Seventeen genotypes were sown at Jaguli Instructional Farm, Mohanpur, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya during 2021-22 in rabi season. The experimental design was Randomized Block Design (RBD) having three replications. Results indicated that TM-425, TM-301-2, TM-25,TM-304-1,TM-433,TM-307-2, TM-312-2, TM-303-1, TM-308-1recorded less than or equal to100 days for maturity. Among the early maturing mustard, TM-308-1 and TM-25 and among late maturing genotypes, TM-306-1 and TM-314-1 produced maximum seed yield.

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Mudhireddy Jaswanthi, & A. Dutta. (2023). Performance of Mustard Genotypes Under Gangetic West Bengal Condition. Journal of Advances in Nanotechnology and Its Applications, 5(2), 11–19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8285395