INTERNAL CONTROL IN DETERMINING OF SEED RAW COTTON YIELD

Abstract

Laboratory and field experiments were carried out at the experimental site of the Research Institute of Breeding, Seed Production and Agricultural Technology of Cotton Growing, located in the Kibray District of the Tashkent Region at 42 degrees north latitude, at an altitude of 481 m above sea level. The soil is a typical, cultivated gray soil of old irrigation from the Boz-Su main channel. Agrotechnical measures were carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the Uzbek Cotton Research Institute for the conditions of typical gray soils with deep groundwater. For each fruit branch the weight of one capsule, the number and weight of 1000 seed pieces were determined under laboratory conditions, their germination. It is shown that the high quality of cotton seeds guarantees control over their varietal and sowing characteristics. The yield, and therefore the number and size of the bolls are influenced by many factors – climate, soil, growing zones, annual rates of NPK mineral fertilizers, irrigation regime, agrotechnical methods, and others. Most of all yield volume depends on the rate of application of mineral fertilizers. On sown areas the field germination of cotton seeds, as a rule, is no more than 75-80%. Bringing it to 90% and above will provide the most complete plant stand density, while the seeding rate will decrease and the weight of 1000 seed pieces will increase. It was revealed that this indicator in comparison with the number of seeds in one seed capsule by the tightness of the connection, is characterized by a curvilinear dependence with a correlation ratio η = 0.885. The closeness of the connection between the field seeds germination and the opening of the capsules was established: with it’s increasing the percentage of opening decreases.