Introduction a new cultivar of jute and development its planting under Iraqi conditions

Abstract

Three cultivars of jute were obtained from International genetic resource called : Green Indian jute , Manchurian jute and P-22 in order to tested and develop its planting under Iraqi conditions , on other hand , their used in textile and papers manufactured . This study was carried out for four respectively seasons from 1999 2002 at three experimental stations e.g. (AL-Taji , Zafurania and Madain ) . Results show that the cultivar of green Indian exceeded significantly the other cultivars in all character’s that had been studied such as plant height , diameter of stem , number of tillering / plant , number of pods / plant and grain yield . However, the over all means of the characters that have been mentioned above , were plant height (25%) , diameter of stem ( 17% ) , number of tillering / plant (58% ) , number of pods / plant (14% ) and grain yield (98% ). Whereas, the average yield of the biomass was 22.11 tons / ha, which caused increased in the yield (38%) comparing with the cultivars that gaves the highest yield.