Vol. 11, Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
KG Kugashiya, PR Chaudhari, YA Viradiya, DK Patel, TA Desai, PO Vaghela and BK Chaudhari

Abstract:
A field experiment was carried out during Kharif 2019 and 2020 at the Department of Seed Technology, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar, Gujarat to investigate the effect of staggered sowing on hybrid seed yield of castor hybrid GCH 8 during seed production. The experiment comprised of five staggered sowing treatments and analysis was carried out with Completely Randomized Design. The results revealed that sowing of male parent (DCS 89) by 10 days earlier to female parent (JP 96) recorded higher number of effective branches per plant in female parent (22.69), total number of capsules on primary raceme of female parent (56.69), hybrid seed yield per plant (209.95 g) and hybrid seed yield (1148 kg/ha).