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Effect of pollination on rapeseed (Brassica campestris L. var. toria) production in Chitwan, Nepal.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Pudasaini, R. Thapa, R. B. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Rapeseed is an important cash crop of Nepal and an experiment was conducted to study the effect of pollination on its production in Chitwan during 2012-2013. The experiment was designed in Randomized Complete Block with four replications and five pollination treatments. The rapeseed plots were caged with mosquito nets at 10% flowering except natural pollination. Two-framed colonies of Apis mellifera L. and Apis cerana F. were introduced separately for pollination, and control plot caged without pollinators. Seed set increased by 48.72% with Apis cerana F. and 45.73% with Apis mellifera L. pollination as compared to the control. The highest seed yield was obtained from Apis cerana F. (1.11 mt/ha), followed by Apis mellifera L. (0.88 mt/ha), hand (0.75 mt/ha), natural pollination (0.66 mt/ha) and control (0.13 mt/ha), respectively. This study clearly indicated pollination deficit under natural condition, and therefore, management of honeybee is necessary for higher production and productivity of rapeseed under Chitwan condition. |
| Starting Page | 41 |
| Ending Page | 45 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3126/aej.v15i0.19814 |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/AEJ/article/download/19814/16297 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3126/aej.v15i0.19814 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
