Abstract
A field study was conducted in the 2019 kharif season at the Agronomy Instructional Farm, SDAU, SKNagar, Gujarat, India. To investigate that the sowing time and spacing influenced yield, quality and economics of Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in loamy sand soil. Twelve treatment combinations were examined, involving three sowing times (T1: 3rd week of May, T2: 1st week of June, T3: 3rd week of June) and four plant spacings (S1: 90 cm × 60 cm, S2: 90 cm × 45 cm, S3: 60 cm × 60 cm, S4: 60 cm × 45 cm). Four replications of a split plot design were used for the experiment. The third week of May was consistently the best time to sow cotton, according to the results, producing the maximum yields of seed cotton and stalk cotton. The quantity of monopodial branches/plant, harvest index and plant population as well as quality parameters such as oil content and ginning percentage were not significantly impacted by sowing time. The 3rd week of May sowing also yielded the highest benefit cost ratio and net realization. In terms of plant spacing, the spacing of 60 cm × 45 cm promoted highest plant population, taller plants and increased yield attributes like the bolls/plant, boll weight and seed cotton yield/plant. The highest seed cotton yield and stalk yield were achieved with this spacing. Harvest index and quality parameters were unaffected by plant spacing. The narrow spacing of 60 cm × 45 cm also resulted in the highest benefit cost ratio and net realization. The interaction effect between sowing time and plant spacing did not significantly influence growth, yield, yield attributes and quality parameters of Bt cotton.
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Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
Third-week-of-May sowing produced the maximum seed-cotton and stalk-cotton yields.
- Taxon
- Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
Gossypium hirsutume1 - Treatment
- third week of Maye0
- Outcome
- maximum yields of seed cotton and stalk cottone0
- Direction
- maximume0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The third week of May was consistently the best time to sow cotton, according to the results, producing the maximum yields of seed cotton and stalk cotton.”
e1“Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Sowing time did not significantly affect monopodial branches, harvest index or plant population.
- Taxon
- Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)Gossypium hirsutume1
- Treatment
- sowing timee0
- Outcome
- monopodial branches/plant, harvest index and plant populatione0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The quantity of monopodial branches/plant, harvest index and plant population as well as quality parameters such as oil content and ginning percentage were not significantly impacted by sowing time.”
e1“Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Sowing time did not significantly affect oil content or ginning percentage.
- Taxon
- Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)Gossypium hirsutume1
- Treatment
- sowing timee0
- Outcome
- oil content and ginning percentagee0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“quality parameters such as oil content and ginning percentage were not significantly impacted by sowing time.”
e1“Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Third-week-of-May sowing yielded the highest benefit-cost ratio and net realization.
- Taxon
- Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)Gossypium hirsutume1
- Treatment
- 3rd week of May sowinge0
- Outcome
- benefit cost ratio and net realizatione0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The 3rd week of May sowing also yielded the highest benefit cost ratio and net realization.”
e1“Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Spacing at 60 cm × 45 cm gave the highest plant population and taller plants.
- Taxon
- Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)Gossypium hirsutume1
- Treatment
- 60 cm × 45 cme0
- Outcome
- plant population, taller plantse0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the spacing of 60 cm × 45 cm promoted highest plant population, taller plants”
e1“Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Spacing at 60 cm × 45 cm increased bolls per plant, boll weight and seed-cotton yield per plant.
- Taxon
- Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)Gossypium hirsutume1
- Treatment
- 60 cm × 45 cme0
- Outcome
- bolls/plant, boll weight and seed cotton yield/plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“60 cm × 45 cm promoted highest plant population, taller plants and increased yield attributes like the bolls/plant, boll weight and seed cotton yield/plant”
e1“Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Spacing at 60 cm × 45 cm produced the highest seed-cotton and stalk yields.
- Taxon
- Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)Gossypium hirsutume2
- Treatment
- 60 cm × 45 cme1
- Outcome
- seed cotton yield and stalk yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The highest seed cotton yield and stalk yield were achieved with this spacing.”
e1“the spacing of 60 cm × 45 cm”
e2“Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant spacing did not affect harvest index or quality parameters.
- Taxon
- Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)Gossypium hirsutume1
- Treatment
- plant spacinge0
- Outcome
- Harvest index and quality parameterse0
- Direction
- unaffectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Harvest index and quality parameters were unaffected by plant spacing.”
e1“Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Spacing at 60 cm × 45 cm yielded the highest benefit-cost ratio and net realization.
- Taxon
- Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)Gossypium hirsutume1
- Treatment
- 60 cm × 45 cme0
- Outcome
- benefit cost ratio and net realizatione0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The narrow spacing of 60 cm × 45 cm also resulted in the highest benefit cost ratio and net realization.”
e1“Bt cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Sowing time and spacing showed no significant interaction for growth, yield, yield attributes or quality.
- Taxon
- Bt cottone0
- Treatment
- sowing time and plant spacinge0
- Outcome
- growth, yield, yield attributes and quality parameterse0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Verbatim
e0“The interaction effect between sowing time and plant spacing did not significantly influence growth, yield, yield attributes and quality parameters of Bt cotton.”
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