Madras Agricultural Journal
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Thermal Indices for Suitable Sowing Window of Sweet Sorghum in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore from June to November, 2005 to identify the suitable sowing window of sweet sorghum in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu by using thermal indices and heat use efficiency. The result revealed that higher yield recorded on June 8th (23rd SMW) due to higher thermal use efficiency than other dates of sowing

Keywords: : Sweet sorghum, Thermal indices and Heat use efficiency

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