1Department of Agriculture, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore-641 114, Tamil Nadu, India
2Department of Plant Physiology, School of Agriculture, Mohan Babu University, Tirupati-517 102, Andhra Pradesh, India
3Department of Entomology, M.S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Gajapati-761 211, Odisha, India
4Statistics in Business Analytics, School of Business and Management, Christ University, Bengaluru-560 001, Karnataka, India
5University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad-580 005, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding Author: D. Jeevitha, Department of Agriculture, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore-641 114, Tamil Nadu, India, Email: jeevsmschort@gmail.com
Online Published on 14 November, 2024.
Successful crop production in any crop depends on the good agronomic practices. Being a commercial crop, onion needs good attention during the crop growth stages, most of the times, in onion cultivation farmers follow broadcasting method which leads to the wastage of seeds, seedling mortality and poor germination and it will affect the total yield and productivity.
To identify the best planting method an investigation on performance of seed drill versus transplanted onion was conducted at University of Agricultural Sciences, Main Agriculture Research Station, Dharwad.
Results indicated that, T3- (Transplanting) performed superior for all the vegetative and yield parameters studied. Plant height 55.57 cm, leaf number (7.86, 8.29 and 8.08 in pooled), Leaf width (1.03 cm, 0.99 cm pooled 1.01 cm). Total yield: (21.97 t/ha, 22.05 t/ha and 22.01 t/ha), marketable yield (20.74 t/ha, 20.95 t/ha and 20.85 t/ha), bulb weight (64.00 g, 53.00 g and 53.90 g in pooled analysis). From this, it can be concluded that transplanting of onion was better compared to other methods.
Non pelleted, Pelleted, Seed drill, Transplanted
