Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
Anant Kumar, Rashmee Yadav, Ankur Jha and Indrapal Singh

Abstract:
Assessment of scented sodic salt tolerant variety of paddy. KVK, Auraiya in U.P. conducted an On Farm Trial to assess the yield effect and low net return in paddy grown in partially reclaimed sodic soil. Introduction of CSR-30 is compared with salt tolerant variety CSR-36 and the local variety Kranti grown by farmers. The results showed the grain yield of 45.82 q/ha in case of CSR-30 as compared to 51.45q/ha in case of CSR-36 & 42.24 q/ha in case of Kranti. In spite of low yield in CSR-30, that net return/ha is found to be high i.e., Rs. 17894/- as compared to Rs. 16246/- in case of CSR-36 & Rs. 12282/- in case of Kranti. This might be due to the reason that scented salt tolerant variety of paddy fetches higher price in the market as compared to other non-scented salt tolerant variety of paddy.