Importance, botany,land requirement ,nursery mangement,varieties,fertilizer requirement, irrigation requirement,disease, insect pest, physiological disorder,harvesting , yield of chilli for varietal and hybrid seed production

1. CHILLI
Submitted By : Vijay Singh
From:- Gudia Khera

2. CHILLI
 Botanical Name : Capsicum annum
 Family : Solanaceae
 Chromosome no : 2n =24
 Red colour of chilli is due to : Capcyanthin
 Pungency of chilli is due to : Capsicutin

3. IMPORTANCE :
 Chillies widely used as vegetable and spice
 Chilli is often cross pollinated crop
 It is also known as hot pepper

4. BOTANY :
 Often cross pollinated vegetable crop
 The flower is protogynous
 Anthesis in chilli occurs between 6.00 and 9.00 hr
 Flower remains open for 2 to 3 days

6. Season : June – July , February – March and
September – October
Seed rate : seed requierd for one hectare is 500 g to 1
kg for variety
: for hybrid : 250 g seed per hectare

7. LAND REQUIREMENT :
 There are no land requirement as of previous crops , but
the land should be free from volunteer plant .
 Generally areas affected by wilt or root rot may be avoided .
 Crop rotation must be followed to avoid endemic
solanaceous pests .

8. NURSERY :
Sow the seeds in raised nursery bed of 20 cm
height , in row of 5 cm gap and covered with sand .
8 to 10 nursery beds will be sufficient to
transplant one acre .
Apply 2 kg of DAP 10 days before pulling out of
seedling

9. TRANSPLANTING :
The seedling of 30 to 35 days old are ready
for transplanting .
 Transplanting may be done on the ridges in
the evening .

10. VARIETIES :
• Pusa red
• Nasik red
• Patna red
• Udaipur 101, 102 , 103
• Pusa ratnar

11. Method of seed production : seed to seed
Stages of seed production : Breeder seed
- foundation seed - certified seed .

12. ISOLATION REQUIREMENT:
Minimum isolation distance of 400 m for
foundation and hybrid seed 200m for certified
seed production are necessary.

13. MANURING :
Apply 50 tonnes of FYM /ha for irrigated crop .
Basal 0:70:70 kg of NPK .
50 kg N at 15 days after transplanting and 50kg N
at 45th days after transplanting

14. ROUGING :
 Field inspection and roughing should be done for varities
and hybrid at different stage based on the plant height and its
stature ,flower colour and pod characters .
 The plant affected with leaf blight , anthracnose and viral
diseases should be removed from the seed field .

15. PEST MANAGEMENT:
 Chilli thrips : Scirtothrips dorsalis
• Inward curling of leaves is a typical symptoms .
 White flies: Bemisia tabaci
• It is responsible for transmission of chilli mosaic
virus

16. • Both white flies and thrips can be
managed by spraying of any systemic
insecticides i .e. Acephate @1.0 ml /liter of
water
• Imidacloprid @ 0.5 ml /liter of water

19. HARVESTING AND
PROCESSING
 Harvesting should be done in different picking .
 1st and last one or two picking can be harvested for vegetable purpose .
 The well ripened fruits with deep , red colour alone should be collected
in each picking .
 The harvested pod are to be dried under shade for 1 to 2 days and then
under sun for another 2 to 3 days .
 The seed are extracted from graded dried pods .

20. The seeds are cleaned by winnowing and dried to
10% moisture content over tarpaulin .
Then seeds arte processed with BSS 8 wiremess
screens .
 SEED YIELD : 50 -80 Kg/ha

21. SEED CERTIFICATION:
Number of inspection: a minimum no. of 3 inspection shall be
made as follows :
I. The 1st inspection shall be made before flowering on order to
variety isolation .
II. The 2nd inspection shall be made during flowering to check
isolation , off type.
III. The 3rd inspection shall be made at maturity and prior to
harvesting .

22. REFERENCE ;
Sunda nemraj
www.seed production . Com
Sharma r.k.
Seed production technology pdf