P.C. Chaurasiya* and Sarswati Pandey1
1RMDCARS, Ambikapur, IGKV-College of Agriculture & Research Station, Mahasamund (C.G.)
Email: pcchaurasiaigkv@gmail.com
Received-05.02.2020, Revised-26.02.2020
Abstract: Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica. L.) is one of the most prominent vegetable grown all over the world and is an important fancy and highly nutritive exotic vegetable. Vegetables play a very important role in our daily diet. As an unconventional vegetable “Broccoli” is yet to gain the desired popularity in our country. It is very rich source of various anti-cancer agents as well as Vitamin C and dietary fibre. However, considerable attention is being given on the production technology of Broccoli which is rich in nutrient content and greater yield potential. But yet, no systematic work has been done on evaluation and commercialization of high value nutrient rich this Cole crops. Therefore, the present study were carried out at Potato & Temperate Fruit Research Station, Mainpat, Surguja, Chhattisgarh under Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya during the year 2017-2018 in Rabi season with objectives to varietal performance of Broccoli and to standardize the production technology of sprouting broccoli in northern hill zone of Chhattisgarh. Cultivation of these value added vegetables can boost the income of farmers due to very high market price and export demand. The investigations were followed in Randomized Block Design with three replications. Nine varieties of Broccoli viz. Palam Samridhi, Green Giant, Green Speed, KTS-1, Puspa, Palam Haritika, Priya, Aiswarya and Prema were evaluated for best performance. In general, the performances of this crop with different varieties proved that there is good scope to grow broccoli vegetable due to prevailing suitable agro-climatic condition as well as the gaining importance as potential vegetable for export. Among all the varieties of Broccoli Palam Samridhi was found superior, which gave higher yield (184.5q/ha) followed by Green Speed (173.74q/ha), Green Giant (156.23q/ha) and Palam Haritika (144.84q/ha) respectively in combination with best head formation.
Keywords: Performance, Broccoli, Varieties, quality and yield
References
Abou El-Magd, M.M., El-Bassiony, A.M. and Fawazy, Z.F. (2006). Effect of organic manure with or without chemical fertilizers on growth, yield and quality of some varieties of broccoli plants. Journal of Applied Sciences Research 2(10).
Damato, G. (2000). Late sowing dates and high plant density in six cultivars of broccoli for processing. Acta Horticulturae 533: 267-274.
Damato, G. and Trotta, L. (2000). Cell shape, transplant age, cultivars and yield in broccoli. Acta Horticulturae 533: 153-160.
El-Helaly, M.A. (2006). Studies on growth and development of broccoli. PhD thesis, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt. 791-798.
Panse, V. G. and Sukhatme, P.V. (1985). Statistical methods for Agricultural Workers, 4th ed. ICAR, New Delhi,347.
Renbomo, N. and Biswas, P. K. (2014). Performance of different varieties of broccoli under rainfed mid-hill conditions of Mokokchung district of Nagaland. Indian J. Farm Science 4(2):76-79.
Sharma, D.K. (2003). Studies on evaluation and commercialization of exotic vegetables for sustainable agriculture production in Himachal Pradesh. Haryana J. Hort. Sciences 32(1/2): 130-133.
Singh, R., Kumar, S. and Kumar, S. (2014). Performance and Preference of Broccoli Varieties Grown under Low Hill Conditions of Himachal Pradesh. Indian Res. J. Ext. Edu. 14 (1):112-114.
Siomos, A.K., Papadopoulou, P.P. and Dogras, C.C. (2004). Compositional differences of stem and floral portions of broccoli heads. Journal of Vegetable Crop Production 10(2): 107-118.
Thapa, U. and Rai, R. (2012). Evaluation of Sprouting Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. Italica) genotypes for growth yield and quality. International J. Ag. Science. Vol. 4(7):284-286.