Vol. 10, Issue 11 (2021)

Author(s):
Abhay Kumar, MS Malik, PR Oraon, Rakesh Kumar, Sheela Barla, Swati Shabnam, SS Das and Kerobim Lakra

Abstract:
A field experiment on mustard in rabi season of 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 was carried out at experimental site near Faculty of Forestry in main campus of Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. The experimental plots were laid out in randomized block design, sole farming and Gamhar based Agrisilvicultural system. Growth and yield attributes of like plant population, number of leaves, plant height, root length, numbers of root hairs, crop growth rate, days to 50% flowering, days to 80% siliqua maturity, number of primary branches, number of siliqua per plant, siliqua length, number of seeds per siliqua, weight of seeds per siliqua and test weight were found higher in sole farming than when intercropped with Gamhar in rabi season of 2016-17, 2017-18 and in pooled data. The yield characters of mustard, such as grain yield, straw yield, biological yield and harvest index in Sole Cowpea-Mustard was 5.52, 8.48 and 7.16 percent, 2.44, 4.53 and 3.53 percent, 3.29, 5.71 and 4.56 percent and 2.24, 3.21 and 2.73 percent higher than Gamhar+Cowpea-Mustard in 2016-17, 2017-18 and in pooled data respectively, while in Sole Greengram-Mustard, it was 5.24, 10.24 and 7.83 percent, 1.19, 9.04 and 5.18 percent, 2.38, 9.42 and 5.99 percent, and 2.45, 1.20 and 1.80 percent higher than Gamhar+Greengram-Mustard in 2016-17, 2017-18 and in pooled data respectively.