Oil Seed Crop

SN	Common name	Ground nut	Sun flower (Suryaful)	Safflower (Kardai, Kusum)	Mustard (Rai, mohari)
1	Botanical name	Arachis. hypogaea	Helianthus anunsus	Carthamus tinctorius	Brassican juncea
2	Origin	Brazil (South America)	North America	Abyssinia and Afghanistan	European
3	Soil	Well drained, light, loose, friable, sandy loam well supplied with Ca, and rich in organic matter pH-6.5 to 7.2	Medium to heavy soils pH 6.5 to 8.5	Black cotton soil, loam and light alluvial soil	Well-drained soils
4	Climate	Tropical crop, requires long and warm growing season	Cool climate, warm weather. Warm & sunny days	Cool climate, drought, resistance	Cool climate
5	Preparatory tillage	Ploughing, 2 to 3 harrowings	Ploughing, 2 to 3 harrowings	Ploughing, harrowing	Ploughing, harrowing
6	Seed & sowing
	i) Time of sowing	Kharif – June-July Rabi- Feb-March	Kharif – June-July Rabi- October Summer – Jan Feb	Rabi season – Oct - November	Rabi season – Sept to Oct
	ii) Method of sowing	Drilling & dibbling	Drilling & dibbing	Mixture with wheat and gram and Jowar	Grown on mixture and also pure crop
	iv) Number of seeds/dib	1 seed/dibble	Heavy soil with tall var 60X22.5-30cm2	Seed rate (mix) 8 to 15 kg/ha Pure – 20 to 25 kg/ha	Broadcasting & drilling
	v) Spacing & seed rate Spacing / Seed rate / Plant population	i) Bunch or erect 30X10cm2 90-100 kg/ha 3.33 lakh/ha ii)Semi sprading 37.5X15cm2 80-90 kg/ha 1.80lakh/ha iii) Sprading 45 X15-20cm2 60-80 kg/ha 1.50 lakh/ha Phule pragati 125kg/ha	Medium soil dwarf 45X15-22.5 cm2 or 45X30cm2 Seedrate – 10 to 12kg/ha	Border crop	Mixed– 2 to 2.5 kg/ha Pure cropping- 4 to 6 kg/ha Pure crop 45cmX10 to 15 cm
7	Manures & fertizers	8 to 10 tones of Fym/compost/ha N P K kg/ha Irrigated 25 50 - Rain fed 12.5 25 - General 20 40 - Or 100kg DAP/ha	5 to 6 tons/ha fym or comput N P K Kg/ha Assured rainfall 60 30 30 & irrigation Dry land 50 25 -		60 kg N per ha at the time of sowing
8	After care	Gap filling, 1 to 2 weedings		tops of the plants are removed to encourage branching	Thinning, two weedings and two hoeings
9	Irrigation	Rainy season crop , 2 to 3 supplementary irrigation Summer – 8 to 10 irrigations	Medium water requirement. No irrigation for kharif
10	Harvesting	Growth period Erect 100days, semi spread – 120 days, spreading – 150 days	Maturity in 90 to 100 days	120 to 125 days	Maturity – 75 to 100 days
11	Yield	Erect or Bunch type 15-20 q/ha Semi-spreading 20-25q/ha Spreading (Irrigated) 30q/ha Oil content – 45 to 55 %	Rain fed – 10 to 12g/ha Irrigated – 15 to 20 g/ha Oil – 36 to 42 %	Mixed – 125kg seed/ha Pure – 500 to 800 kg seed/ha For dye purpose 100 to 150 kg of dried petals/ha Oil – 28 to 30%	350 kg/ha Good condition – 1000 to 1200 kg/ha Oil content – 25 to 33 %
12	Varieties	Bunch - Kopergam no 3,SB-11, Faiz pur 1-5 JL-24 (Phule pragati). Sprading – Karad 4.-11, M-13, TNV-1, Jmv-3 Semi- sprading – uf-70-103, Kopergaon no 1, TMV-10, AK-8-11	EC 68414, Morden, S.S.56. Surya, EC 69874 Hybrid – L.D.M, R.s.h.-1, L.D.M.R.S.H.3, M.S.F.H-1,8,17	N-630,N-628,N-300, N-7, NP-30,18,CT-11 and 5-4	Local varieties