Varietal performance of chilli variety barnali

Chilli is an important high value spice crop, its varietal evaluation is an important area for the welfare and livelihood security of farmers. Most of the farmers of Bishnupur district of Manipur are growing wide varieties and cultivars of chilli but so far the research finding on chilli variety Barnali were lacking.To know the yield potential of chilli variety Barnali and its economic impact, the evaluation on green fruit yield performance of chilli var. Barnali and local cultivar Meitei morok was conducted at Leimaram village. The adopted package of practices was seed rate @1kg/ha, spacing 60x45cm, FYM 15t/ha, NPK 120:50:50 kg/ha. There was wide variation between two genotypes in green fruit yield and economic return.The result on yield and economic return indicated that chilli variety Barnali was found superior to local cultivar. The chilli variety Barnali could obtain the yield of 24.65t/ha and the local cultivar Meitei morokobtained 16.25t/ha with a net income of Rs 8,67,317/- and BC ratio 7.43: 1 compared to Meitei morok with a net income of Rs 5,33,317/- with BC ratio 4.57:1. The percent increased in yield over local cultivar Meitei morokwas 51.7 per cent . The technology gap, extension gap and technology index were 8.9t/ha, 8.4t/ha and 26.4 per cent, respectively. It was concluded that cultivation of chilli variety Barnali could help to improve the economy of the farmers.