Evaluation of chench (Corchorus acutanguls Lam.) genotypes collected from Chhattisgarh for leaf yield

An experiment was conducted during the year 2014–15 at Horticultural research farm, Department of Horticulture, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh to study the performance of chench (Corchorus acutanguls Lam.) genotypes under Chhattisgarh plain condition. Altogether twenty five genotypes of chench laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replication. All these twenty five chench genotypes showed significant variation in characters, viz., plant height, no. of leaves per plant, leaf length, leaf width, petiole length, no. of branch per plant, leaf size, days to 50% flowering, fresh weight of plant, dry weight of plant, dry matter percentage of plant, harvest index, leaf stem ratio, leaf yield kg per plot, duration of the crop, leaf weight and test weight. The genotype IGCB-23 recorded significantly highest leaf yield (3.19 kg/plot). However, the genotype IGCB-2 showed the maximum plant height (50.59 cm). The highest harvest index was recorded in genotype IGCB16 (0.82%) while, highest test weight was noticed in genotype IGCB-14 (3.35 g) and the maximum dry matter percentage was found in genotype IGCB-6 (22.13%). Highest fresh weight of plant recorded in genotype IGCB-2 (12.44 g) while, maximum leaf size recoded in genotype IGCB-23 (26.69 cm²).