Author(s): C. S. KARTHIK, A. PARIARI, G. SATHISH and C MARY HAOKIP

Abstract: The experiment was conducted to study the “Correlation co-efficient studies on ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.) germplasm in Gangetic alluvial plains of West Bengal” at Horticultural Research Station, Mondouri, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya., Nadia, West Bengal during 2014-15 and 2015-16. The design adopted was Randomized Block Design having 3 replications with 16 treatments of ginger germplasm namely., Athira, Karthika, Aswathy, Acc-65, Acc-219, GCP-49, Acc-91, Acc-701, Acc-723, Acc-239, Acc-87, Acc-713, Acc-278, Acc-702, Acc-247 and Gorubathan (control.). The investigation revealed that the yield per clump showed a positive and highly significant correlation with plant height (0.9427), number of leaves (0.9091), number of tillers per clump (0.926), leaf length (0.9914), leaf breadth (0.9665), leaf area (0.776), length of fingers (0.65), girth of fingers (0.6139), number of fingers per clump (0.5968), length of clump (0.5338), breadth of clump (0.773), volume of clump (0.6488), oleoresin content (1.000) and dry recovery content(0.963). A positive correlation between yield and essential oil content (0.1056) was observed and it was not significant.

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