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INFLUENCE OF IRRIGATION AT CRITICAL STAGES ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF SUNFLOWER

Volume : 83
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 152 - 154
Published: July 06, 2023
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Abstract


Field experiments were conducted in summer and Kharif seasons during 1991-92 at the Agricultural Research Station, Bhavanisagar to study the critical stages of irrigation requirement for sunflower. Results revealed that skipping irrigations at button initiation, flowering and seed filling stages significantly reduced the seed yield of sunflower by 19.6, 31.2 and 9.4 per cent in summer and 11.9, 10.2 and 11.5per cent in Kharif respectively over the optimal level of irrigations scheduled. Response to irrigations was more pronounced in summer than kharif

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152 - 154
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© The Author(s), 2025. 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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Sunflower Stages Irrigation Yield
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