RESPONSE OF DATE OF SOWING ON YIELD AND YIELD ATTRIBUTES OF SAFFLOWER CULTIVARS

Abstract

In order to investigate the “Response of Date of Sowing on Yield and Yield Attributes of Safflower Cultivars” an experiment was conducted on a split plot design with 4 replications during the year 2013-14 at Indore (M.P.). The experiment consisted of 9 treatment combinations comprising 3 dates of sowing (1st November, 15th November, 30th November) as main plots and 3 cultivars (A-1, NARI-6, NARI-57 ) as subplots. The result showed that sowing of safflower on 1st November recorded significantly higher Yield and Yield attributing characters viz.; number of capitula/plant (26.21), weight of capitula (78.60 g plant-1), number of seeds capitula-1 (22.21), 100 seed weight (6.20 g), higher seed yield (1701 kg ha-1), straw yield (5683 kg ha-1) and biological yield (7384 kg ha-1) as compared to 15th November and 30th November respectively. Among the cultivars of safflower, A-1 had significantly higher yield and yield attributing characters viz., capitula/plant (27.21), weight of capitula (96.72 g plant-1), and 100 seed weight (6.55 g), higher seed yield (1700 kg ha-1), straw yield (5535 kg ha-1) and biological yield (7235 kg ha-1) over NARI-57 and NARI-6. From the study it can be concluded that combination of cultivar A-1 sown in 1st November performed best among all other treatment combinations.