An experiment was conducted at the research field of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka- 1207 to find out the biomass yield of different jute varieties at varying sowing dates. BJRI released two tossa jute variety i.e., BJRI tossapat8, BJRI tossapat9 along with popular Indian tossa jute variety i.e., JRO-524 were tested under three sowing dates i.e. 5th, 25th July and 15th August. The experiment followed RCBD design with three replications. Results revealed that, BJRI tossapat8 produced the highest amount of bark and stick weight both green and dry condition where BJRI tossapat9 produced the highest amount of root and leaf weight both conditions. JRO-524 performed lower at all cases.
Key words: Jute, biomass, variety, sowing date
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