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Relative Performance of some Selected Clones of Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe)With Reference to Rate and Time of Application of Nitrogen

Volume : 62
Issue: Jun-jun
Pages: 357 - 359
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Abstract


Performance of 12 clones of ginger was studied in a field experiment under 2 rates(0 and 60 kg N/ha)and 3 times of application of nitrogen at the Horticultural Research Station.Ambalavayal.Considerable variation was observed among the clones and their response to N treatments.Average weight of rhizome was more in the clone Ro-janeiro which gave the lowest percentage of dry ginger.The highest yield of green ginger was obtained from the clone Mananthody though it was on par with the clones.- Assam,Rio-de-janeiro and Thingpuri.Nitrogen@ 60kg/ha increased the yield of green ginger of all the clones except Himachal- Pradesh and Thiniadium irrespective of the time of application.

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357 - 359
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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