Vol. 12, Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Gopilal Anjana, Moni Thomas, Sahab Kumar Patel, Deep Kumar Pahalwan, Manish Bhan, Alok Bajpai and Anil Kumar Singh

Abstract:
Plant density or spacing and the soil moisture has immediate effect on the flora and fauna. Wider spacing or high dense plant impacts the microclimate and also the biodiversity in the unit space. The immense research going on various aspect of lac production on C. cajan. The present study was done to study the impact of the plant density and moisture on lac yield. For this purpose the total length of lac encrusted branch per plant was measured to obtain total length of stick lac per plant and lac yield. The mean length of stick lac (MLS) per plant in different plant spacings varied from 447.56 cm (S₁), 563.81 cm (S₂) to 627.00 cm (S₃). It was significantly higher in S₃ than S₁ and S_2. The mean lac yield (g) per plant in different levels of irrigation on C. cajan varied from 168.51 g (W₁), 187.38 g (W₂) to 202.02 g (W₃). The latter (W₃) had significantly higher mean lac yield (g) per plant than that from plant is the remaining levels of irrigation. The findings of the present study open many windows in the field of lac cultivation on different host plant species.