Abstract:
An experiment was conducted at Horticulture Instructional Farm, C. P. College of Agriculture, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar (Gujarat), during
Rabi season of 2012-13 to investigate the effect of methods of harvesting and time of curing on yield of
Rabi onion after field and shade curing, where the onion bulbs were kept three months upto September under ambient conditions to assess the post-harvest losses. The results indicated that maximum yield per plot (24.434 kg), yield per hectare (363.61 q), marketable yield per plot (22.844 kg), marketable yield per hectare (339.95 q) were recorded with treatment (m
1), whereas the minimum unmarketable yield per plot (0.792 kg), unmarketable yield per hectare (11.78 q) were recorded with m
3 (Harvesting without irrigation). Maximum yield per plot (24.798 kg), yield per hectare (368.88 q), marketable yield per plot (22.922 kg and marketable yield per hectare (341.10 q) were recorded with c
5 (No Curing). The minimum unmarketable yield per plot (0.707 kg), unmarketable yield per hectare (10.38 q) were recorded with c
2 (Four days curing in field condition).
DS Vitnor, Sushil S Vitnor, GS Pagire and GR Tambe. Effect of methods of harvesting and time of curing on yield of Rabi onion. J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2017;6(6):523-524.