Trends in Biosciences
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 23

Ideal Sowing Dates for Summer Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L. [Cluster Bean] in South Gujarat

  • Author:
  • Deshmukh Vishal, M.K. Arvadia, Deshmukh Swapnil
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 3792 to 3794

Department of Agronomy, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari

*Email: swapnil.deshmukh056@yahoo.in

Online published on 13 January, 2015.

Abstract

A field experiment was carried outat College farm, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari to study the response of vegetable Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L. under different sowing time in summer season. The main objective behind this experiment was to seek an ideal dates of sowing for vegetable Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L. The results of the experiment revealed that crop sown on 25th February or 10th March performed equally good and showed superiority over early sowing on 25th January and 10th February in all the recorded growthandyield parameters. The maximum green pod yield (50.91 q ha−1) was obtained from 25th February sown vegetable Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L.

Keywords

Sowing time, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L., Vegetable, Cluster bean