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| Adaptability Test of Wheat Cultivation in District Panjgur, Balochistan (Southwestern Province of Pakistan) |
Habib Ullah, Johnson Ogunsua, Lutfullah, Abid Hussain Riaz Ahmed, Hilal Kashani, Inayat Ullah and Olasubomi Akinyera
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Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted in agriculture research center Tasp at district Panjgur, the southwestern province of Pakistan. In this research, Local (unknown), Koto, Zardana, and Umaid wheat cultivars were sown by drilling method to investigate different crop characteristics for an adaptability test under agro-climacteric condition of district Panjgur. From the result, seed germination percentage revealed no significant change among the treatments as 65%, 80%, 85%, and 80% for Local, Koto, Zardana, and Umaid, cultivars respectively. However, the Zardana cultivar seed germination percentage was higher as compared to other cultivars. Moreover, Zardana was found to be high yielding wheat crop cultivar cultivated in agro-climacteric condition of district Panjgur with maximum yield of 3.5 kilogram per plot. In addition, sixty plants of each cultivar were selected for further wheat crop characteristic investigation and were measures as respect to plant height (cm), spike length (cm), and number of grains per spike (counting). The results showed, no significant change as well in all treatments for plant height as 65.88 cm, 78.38 cm, 69.63 cm, and 67.88 cm, in terms of spike length as 6.50 cm, 9.38 cm, 7.75 cm, and 8.88 cm, also in number of grains per spike counted as 18.50, 28.50, 31.50, and 29.25 for Local, Koto, Zardana, and Umaid, respectively. The overall performance of Zardana wheat crop characteristics were suggested to be adopted for cultivation and introduced among farmers as the best yielding wheat cultivar for agro-climacteric conditions of district Panjgur in Pakistan. Furthermore, this study would be useful for cereal production industry and future investigation of different cereal crops characteristics in Pakistan.
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