Evaluation of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Varieties in Surguja District of Chhattisgarh

Potato is one of the basic vegetable of mass consumption in world and become 4th important staple food crop after rice, wheat and maize. Potato is one of the important crops for tribal farmers of Surguja district but farmers use uncertified seed of potato for cultivation resulting in lower yields. An on farm trial was conducted during rabi season of 2015–16 and 2016–17 at five farmers’ field. The trial was laid out with three treatments i.e., T1-Farmers’ practice (uncertified potato seed) and T2-Recommonded practice (certified seed of potato-Kufri khayati) and T3-Recommonded practice (certified seed of potato-Kufri pukhraj). Yield attributes, yield, gross return and B: C ratio were recorded and found that significantly higher yields were obtained under T3 during both the years as compared to farmers’ practice.