Vol. 4 (4) : July-August 2013 issue
Green Farming Vol. 4 (4) : 446-448 (July-August, 2013)
Effect of time of sowing and groundnut cultivars under irrigated conditions of Southern Agro-climatic Zone of Andhra Pradesh during early kharif
G. KRISHNA REDDY1*, A. MUNEENDRA BABU2, P. MAHESWARA REDDY3 and T. GIRIDHARA KRISHNA4
Regional Agricultural Research Station, Tirupati - 517 502 (Andhra Pradesh)
Designation : 1,2Senior Scientist *(drgkrishnareddy@gmail.com), 3Scientist, 4Associate Director of Research
Subject : Agronomy and Crop Production
Paper No. :
Total Pages : 3
Received : 29 January 2013
Revised accepted : 24 June 2013
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Citation :
G. KRISHNA REDDY, A. MUNEENDRA BABU, P. MAHESWARA REDDY and T. GIRIDHARA KRISHNA. 2013. Effect of time of sowing and groundnut cultivars under irrigated conditions of Southern Agro-climatic Zone of Andhra Pradesh during early kharif. Green Farming Vol. 4 (4) : 446-448 ; July-August, 2013
ABSTRACT
A field experiment was conducted on performance of groundnut cultivars under irrigated conditions during early kharif at RARS farm, Tirupathi during 2011. Greeshma and Dharani are the two cultivars used with six times of sowing starting from April 1st to June 16th at fortnightly intervals. Groundnut cultivars sown on May 16th recorded the highest pod yield (3397 kg ha-1) which was significantly superior over the other times of sowing. The lowest pod yield of 1736 kg ha-1 was recorded when groundnut was sown on June16th. The interaction effect between varieties and time of sowing was found significant. Groundnut cultivars Dharani and Greeshma when sown on 16th May recorded the highest pod yields of 3514 and 3280 kg/ha respectively which was significantly superior over other dates of sowing. Both the cultivars recorded significantly the lowest pod yield when sown on June 16th.
Key words :
Dharani, Early kharif, Groundnut varieties, Greeshma, Pod yield, Times of sowing.
