Evaluation of Cabbage Varieties for Earliness and Yield in the Mid hills of Jammu and Kashmir

A field investigation was undertaken to evaluate cabbage varieties for earliness and yield characters. The four treatments of the experiment were T1 Golden acre, T2 Pride of India, T3 Pusa mukta and T4 Early Pusa drum head. The trial was laid out in a randomized complete block design with four replications. Three weeks old seedlings of cabbage were transplanted on 3^rd of October 2017 and 5^th of October 2018 consecutively for two years. Comparative performance of four cabbage varieties over two years revealed the superiority of Pusa mukta in terms of yield, quality, and resistance to black rot. This variety produced medium, light green heads, resistant to black rot, gave an average yield of 436.57 q/ha and took 80 days to 50% harvesting. As far as earliness is concerned, Golden acre (T1) variety of cabbage was earliest among all four varieties.