Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
Aasif M, Paulpandi VK, Durai Singh R, Saravana pandian P and T Sivakumar

Abstract:
Sesame is the one of the oldest traditional oilseed crop belonging to Pedaliaceae family and it is considered as “queen of oil seeds”. Sesame oil has significant therapeutic qualities, such as lowering cholesterol and preventing cancer. In recent days the production of sesame was declined due to poor crop stand with adoption of improper cultural practices. As a result of these transplanting in sesame has been recognized as one of the potential measure to increase the productivity of crop. Proper nursery for raising seedlings and transplanting techniques was not yet standardized. Therefore, this experiment was conducted during Rabi 2019 at Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai to study the effect of different nursery types and transplanting techniques on performance of transplanted sesame. The experiment was laid out in split plot design with three replications. The results revealed that leaf area index (3.77 at harvest), dry matter production (3708 kg ha^-1 at harvest), crop growth rate (1.84 g m² day^-1 at harvest), root length (16.9 cm at 60 Days After Transplanting DAT) and root volume (17.0 cc at 60 DAT) was registered higher in manual transplanting of double seedlings raised under weed mat. The least physiological parameters were recorded under transplanting raised bed single seedling with manual transplanter. Therefore, the manual transplanting of double seedling raised under weed mat is an effective practice to obtain the better crop growth in turn which increase the yield of the transplanted sesame.