Performance of Lentil (Lens culinars Medik. subsp. culinaris) varieties/Lines in Uplands of Tripura

Author: U. Giri, A. Saha*, S. Biswas, R. Nath and T.K. Maity

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Every year, Tripura has to incur lots of expenses in importing lentils from West Bengal, Bihar, UP as the productivity of lentil in Tripura is less due to non-availability of high-yielding varieties adopted in upland agro-climatic scenario. Lentil cultivators are losing interest in lentil production due to poor and uncertain yield achieved by locally available varieties. Keeping this in mind, a field experiment was conducted at Experimental farm of the College of Agriculture, Lembucherra, Tripura (W), India (23o56'N latitude and 91o10' E longitude, 160 m.s.l.) during 2019-20. The 11 cultivars along with a local check variety (total 12 varieties) were tested in complete randomized block design (CRBD) and replicated thrice. All the lentil varieties/lines took 41-50 days for flower initiation and 48-57 days for 50% flowering. C23E21 variety had highest germination percentage (86.97%) whereas Plant population at harvest was maximum (2, 57,143 ha-1) for Bari Masoor-5 variety. Plant height

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Lentil, Varieties, Upland, Seed yield, Tripura.

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