Vol. 10, Issue 10 (2021)

Author(s):
Sunil Kumar Gola, Kuldeep Kumar, Yugvinder, Uday Singh and Naveen Kumar

Abstract:
India is the largest producer of okra in the world. Among the cultural factors required for obtaining maximum yield and high returns, date of sowing and choice of cultivars is very important. It is an important factor that affects the physiological, morphological properties of any crop plant as well as yield. Keeping this in view, the present investigation was carried out at Vegetable Research Farm of the Department of Vegetable Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, during the rainy season 2020-21 with five different dates of sowing S₁ (15^th June), S₂ (30^th June), S₃ (15^th July), S₄ (30^th July) and S₅ (14^th August) and three varieties V₁ (Varsha Uphar), V₂ (Hisar Naveen) and V₃ (Hisar Unnat). The growth and yield attributes viz., Maximum plant stand after 15 days, plant height, number of fruit pickings, fruit length, number of fruits per plant, average fruit weight, fruit yield per plant and yield were recorded from 15^th July date of sowing in the cultivar Hisar Naveen. However, minimum number of days to 50% flowering and days to first fruit picking were recorded from 14^th August date of sowing in the cultivar Hisar Naveen. Maximum number of branches, internodal length and crop duration were recorded from 15^th June date of sowing in the cultivar Hisar Naveen. Based on the study, it was found that higher fruit yield was obtained from Hisar Naveen sown on 15^th July which was statistically at par with 30^th July date of sowing under prevailing Haryana climatic conditions.