PERFORMANCE OF RAPESEED AND MUSTARD VARIETIES WITH DIFFERENT PLANTING TECHNIQUES

Abstract

The field experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field of Sher-e- Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), Dhaka in the Rabi season (NovemberFebruary) of 2013-2014 to evaluate the performance of varieties on different planting techniques of rapeseed and mustard. The treatment comprised of two planting techniques and live varieties. The two planting techniques were conventional method of sowing P 1 ) and sowing in puddle soil (P2). Five different varieties were Improved Tori-7 (V 1 ), BARI Sarisha-13 (V,), BAR! Sarisha-IS (V 1), BAR! Sarisha-16 (V4) and SAU SR-03 (V 2). The experiment was laid out in a Split Plot Design with three rep!ications. The experiment focused on the performance of rapeseed and mustard varieties to determine the suitability of cultivation in different condition to fit the crop into the cropping pattern. Results indicated that the seed yield of mustard varied with varietal difference. But there was no significant difference between the two planting techniques for most of the parameters. The planting techniques affect significantly for the siliqua length. It was found that higher siliqua length was found in the conventional technique of planting. The growth behavior of the five studied varieties was diflèrent. The variety Improved Tori-7 showed the highest yield than the other studied varieties, which is 14.29% higher than the variety BAR! Sarisha-1 6. The variety BAR! Sarisha- 16 showed the highest yield response (2.39 t haS') with conventional technique that statistically similar with the variety Improved Tori-7 (2.38 t haj with conventional well as puddled soil condition. The interaction effect of conventional technique with BAR! Sarisha-l6 gives 0.42% higher yield return than puddle soil sowing with Improved Tori-7. Thus, it is concluded that the variety Improved Tori-7 can be well suited with both techniques and BAR! Sarisha-16 could be grown with conventional method of sowing (P 1 V4) for higher yield output.