An experiment was conducted to assess the high fertilizer responsiveness
of Asiriya Mwitunde, a groundnut variety introduced from Tanganiyaka in respect
of N and P under the soil and climatic conditions of Kerala. The various
growth characters such as height, leaf and haulm production were significantly increased
by 30 kg N/ha. Application of P upto 100 kg/ha increased significantly
the yield attributes such as weight of kernels, test weight, shelling percentage in
this variety. Pod yield was significantly increased by 20 kg N and 75 kg P giving
a per hectare yield of about 2969 kg/ha under the agro-climatic conditions of
Kerala.
For effecting dependable selection in breeding groundnut varieties suited to kharif
uplands and summer rice fallows, genotypic correlation studies and path analysis were done based
on 18 characters collected from 80 ...
