Madras Agricultural Journal
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Agronomic Performance of Bt and Non Bt Cotton hybrids

Abstract

An investigation on three Bt cotton hybrids was carried out for their agronomic performance with their counterparts non Bt hybrids at the Department of Cotton, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore during winter season of 2007-2008 along with hybrid cotton Savitha. The results indicated that all the Bt entries recorded higher seed cotton yield than their non_x0002_Bt counterparts. Among the Bt hybrids, MECH 162 Bt recorded higher seed cotton yield than the other two Bt hybrids viz., MECH 184 and MECH 12 as well as their non Bt counterparts and the check Savitha

Keywords: Cotton, Bt hybrids, seed cotton yield

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