Vol. 12, Issue 6 (2023)

Author(s):
Akash Singh, Narendra Singh, Abhishek Singh, Rahul Singh Raghuvanshi, Ankur Tripathi and Shivam Singh

Abstract:
Among the oilseed crops grown during Rabi, linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) is next in importance to rapeseed and mustard in area as well as in production. In industrial oil production, it ranks first in the country. The cultivation of the crop as such goes back to more than 5000 years. Linseed is one of the predominant industrial oilseed crops grown in temperate climate. Oil of linseed crop is rich in α-linolenic acid (ALA) because of this linseed oil readily polymerizes on exposure to oxygen, making it useful for a variety of industrial products. In India it is cultivated mainly at central India, although it’s cultivated in patches are spread from Himalaya in north to Karnataka in south. In India it grown mainly for commercial oil but in European & American countries it is cultivated for fiber. Linseed is plant grown as winter crop. The experiment was conducted under wilt sick field condition at Nawabganj, C. S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur (U.P.) In Randomized Block Design (RBD) during 2019-20, Eleven cultivars namely, Jeevan, Sweta, Parvati, Surbhi, NDL-2004-05, Kiran, RLC-92, Indira Alsi, Dipika, Shekhar including susceptible cultivar Chambal were sown in the month of October, 2019 in three replication having plot size of 3 m x 1.5 meter with plant to plant spacing of 25 cm x 10 cm. Field experiments conducted during 2016-2017 for the management of wilt of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.), eleven varieties namely, Jeevan, Sweta, Parvati, Surbhi, NDL-2004-05, Kiran, RLC-92, Indira Alsi, Dipika, Shekhar including susceptible cultivar Chambal were sown in the month of October, 2016. Out of 11 varieties, the maximum initial plant population (537.67 and 516.33/ plot) was noted with Shekhar followed by NDL-2004-05 respectively. Susceptible check Chambal has average initial plant population of 490.67/plot after germination. The minimum percentage of wilting was recorded in cultivar RLC-92 (6.66 percent) followed by Jeevan (8.97 percent) and Indira Alsi (9.57 Percent), respectively but all were at par statistically.