Vol. 12, Issue 9 (2023)

Author(s):
Nazneen Qureshi, Anoop Badoni and Adarsh Dangwal

Abstract:
Okra seeds have a relatively short viability period. Natural Seed pelleting of okra by using Turmeric offers several benefits like enhanced seed visibility, seed protection, seed treatment, germination and emergence. To determine the germination % of okra variety- Kashi Pragati, seeds were pelleted by turmeric and we used a complete randomized design (CRD) which was employed with six treatments with four replications, T₁ (10 gram turmeric powder), T₂- (25 gram turmeric powder), T₃- (50 gram turmeric powder), T₄- (75 gram turmeric powder), T₅- (100 gram turmeric powder) and T₆- (Control) were taken. We have recorded the Germination percentage, Dead seed percentage, Hard seed percentage, Root length, Shoot length and Seedling length. We observed that treatment T₂ (25 gm turmeric powder) shows the best results among all the treatments i.e. 97.0, 1.0, 2.0, 1.9, 3.3, and 5.6 respectively.