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Performance of two Cotton Cultivars in two Different Tracts of Tamil Nadu

Volume : 68
Issue: Jun-jun
Pages: 373 - 378
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Abstract


in a study of two cotton varieties, MCU 5 and MCU 9 for four years during winter and summer seasons, it has been brought out that both the varieties could be grown successfully in summer as well as winter seasons. Better seed cotton yield was recorded in summer than winter. MCU 9 was found to gin bettet then MCU 5. MCU 9 between the varieties and winter seeson among the two seasons have been observed to be better for improving the lint index. Both the varieties were equal in mean fibre length. The characters mean fibre lenath. fibre fineness and maturity coefficient were not influenced by environmental factors. The fibres produced during summer season wera noted to possess better bundle strength.

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373 - 378
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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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