Effect of Different Sowing Dates on Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Cultivars

Research Article

**Effect of Different Sowing Dates on Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Cultivars**

Mahmood-ul-Hassan, Muhammad Nasrullah, Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal, Taj Muhammad, Muhammad Iqbal and Saghir Ahmad

An experiment was conducted to assess the effect of sowing date on two cotton varieties MNH552 and MNH554 grown on Ist April, 15th April, Ist. May, 15th May, Ist. June, 15th June, Ist. July and 15th July during 1998 and 1999 under Multan conditions. 15th May and Ist June sown cotton displayed significantly maximum seed cotton yield of 2998 and 2883 kg ha^-1 in 1998 and 4027 and 3894 kg ha^-1 respectively in 1999 as compared to 595 and 253 kg ha^-1 (1998) and 1269 and 223 kg ha^-1 (1999) from crop sown on Ist and 15th July respectively. The increase in both sowing dates in seed cotton yield was associated with boll weight and bolls per plant. On average of two years data 15th May produced highest seed cotton yield of 3513 kg ha^-1, whereas the lowest figure was 238 kg ha^-1 (15th July). Comparing varietal performance MNH552 (2310 kg ha^-1) yielded higher as compared to MNH554 (2288 kg ha^-1). However two cultivars declined the yield in late planting.

PDF References Citation

How to cite this article

Mahmood-ul-Hassan, Muhammad Nasrullah, Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal, Taj Muhammad, Muhammad Iqbal and Saghir Ahmad, 2003. Effect of Different Sowing Dates on Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Cultivars. Asian Journal of Plant Sciences, 2: 461-463.

DOI: 10.3923/ajps.2003.461.463

URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ajps.2003.461.463

Asian Journal of Plant Sciences

Article Trend

Total views 158

Authors

Mahmood-ul-Hassan

Muhammad Nasrullah

Muhammad Zaffar Iqbal

Taj Muhammad

Muhammad Iqbal

Saghir Ahmad

Keywords

Research Article

**Effect of Different Sowing Dates on Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Cultivars**

How to cite this article

Related Articles

Leave a Comment