Varietial Performance of Spinach (Spinacia oleraceae) at Prayagraj Agro-Climatic Condition
Sentinaro Ao *
Department of Horticulture, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Anita Kerketta
Department of Horticulture, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
V. M. Prasad
Department of Horticulture, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Vijay Bahadur
Department of Horticulture, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The research experiment was conducted at the Department of Horticulture’s, SHUATS, Prayagraj during the year 2022.The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design comprising of 9 varieties viz., V1: All Green, V2: Space Spinach, V3: Red kitten Spinach, V4: Catalina Spinach, V5: Bloomdale, V6: Perpetual Spinach, V7: Indian summer Spinach, V8: Punjab Green, V9: Corvair spinach with three replications. The Observations were recorded as per the growth and yield parameters. The findings reveal that the treatment T6 (Perpetual Spinach) was found to be the most suitable over all the other varietiesin relation to the growth and yield of Spinach.
Keywords: Spinach (Spinacia oleraceae), growth, yield and economics