Vol. 11 (2 & 3) : March-June 2020 issue
Green Farming Vol. 11 (2 & 3) : 284-286 ; March-June, 2020
Effect of different pollinators on onion seed production in Nalanda district of Bihar
B.B. SINGH1*, P.D. MANE2 and S.K. SINGH3
Department of Agricultural Entomology, Nalanda College of Horticulture, Noorsarai - 803 113 (Nalanda) (Bihar)
Designation : 1Assistant Professor *(beerento@rediffmail.com), 2Associate Professor,
3Assistant Professor (Vegetable Science)
Subject : Entomology
Paper No. : P-7878
Total Pages : 3
Received : 06 April 2020
Revised accepted : 30 May 2020
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Citation :
B.B. SINGH, P.D. MANE and S.K. SINGH. 2020. Effect of different pollinators on onion seed production in Nalanda district of Bihar. Green Farming Vol. 11 (2 & 3) : 284-286 ; March-June, 2020.
ABSTRACT
The field experiments were carried out at Experimental farm of Nalanda College of Horticulture, Noorsarai, Bihar, India during Rabi seasons of 2018 to 2019 to identify the effect of different pollinators on onion seed production. The pollinators recorded in the present investigation observed that pollination activity of Hymenopteran insects was most abundant followed by Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Orthoptera. All the four Apis species viz.,- A. mellifera, A. florae, A. dorsata and A. cerena were recorded as top workers on onion umbels as pollen and nectar gatherers. The data recorded that the different modes of pollination viz., caged without insect pollinators (SP), caged with A. mellifera (Bee pollination-BP), and open to all insect (Natural Pollination-OP), the most effective mode proved to be natural pollinated (OP) that maximum number of seed per umbel (1246), 1000 seed weight (3.45g), yield per m2 area (102.14g) and yield per hectare (1021kg) followed by Bee pollinated (925), (3.05), (82.09) and (8.20) and Self pollinated as (107), (1.90), (21) and (2.10) respectively. The percentage increased was more in open pollinated (386.19) followed by Bee pollinated (290.48) over without insect pollinated plot.
Key words :
Apis species, Onion seed production, Pollinators, Yield attributes.