Evaluation of chench (Corchorus acutanguls Lam.) genotypes for various horticultural traits

An experiment was conducted during 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 underChhattisgarh 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, no. of branch per plant, days to 50% flowering, fresh weight of plant, leaf yield qu per ha, duration of the crop, and test weight. The genotype IGCB-23 recorded significantly highest leaf yield (79.91 (q/ha)). However, the genotype IGCB-2 showed the maximum plant height (50.59 cm). The highest test weight was noticed in genotype IGCB-14 (3.35 gm) and highest fresh weight of plant recorded in genotype IGCB-2 (12.44 gm) while, maximum no. of branches was noticed in genotype IGCB-1 (15.73).