Year: 2016 | Month: June | Volume 3 | Issue 1
Prospects of developing pre-mature flowering resistant tossa jute (C. olitorius) variety for early March and onwards sowing
Mosiur Rahaman
DOI:10.5958/2454-9541.2016.00002.5
Abstract:
Jute is generally cultivated during the months of April-July and the crop is followed by aman /kharif paddy cultivation. In most cases jute seed is sown based on onset of nor’westers or westerly winds which are not usually anticipated in time. Therefore, the cultivators have to face a dilemma in regard to pre-mature flowering under early sowing and pre-mature harvesting of his crop before paddy cultivation under late sowing. In such a situation, development of jute crop highly resistant to pre-mature flowering for early March to mid-March sowing without any risk of pre-mature flowering is considered to be a new breeding objective.Not only this, the issue of fitting the jute crop in a schedule of intercropping with green gram etc., where the latter crops need to be harvested before monsoon break, a jute variety needs to be preferably sown in the 1st week of March .
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