Abstract:
An experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka during the period from July, 2006 to December, 2006
with the objective to find out the effect of storage conditions and durations of uprooted
seedlings on the performance of aromatic rice. The experiment was carried out in a
Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. Two storage conditions
such as i) on the mud and ii) in the water with six storage durations viz. 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and
10 days were included in the experiment. Results revealed that the storage conditions had
significant effect on plant height, number of tillers hill
nmber of effective tillers hill
panicle
-1
-1
, number of filled panicle
-1
, number of non-effective tillers hill
-1
, total dry matter production,
, number of unfilled grains panicle
-1
, number of total grain
-1
, grain yield, straw
yield and biological yield The best performance was exhibited by the seedlings which
were stored on the mud. Storage durations also showed significant effect on plant height,
number of tillers hill
effective tillers hill
-1
-1
, total dry matter production, number of total hills m
, number of non-effective tillers hill
number of filled grain panicle
-1
-1
2
, number of
, number of total grain panicle
, grain yield, straw yield and biological yield. The
uprooted seedlings were found to be storable in mud up to 4 days and in water up to 2
days without any appreciable loss in grain yield.
