Mohd Talha Ansari

A field study on use of ichthyo toxic plant for eco friendly fishing by the local people of Sikkim was conducted in the East District of Sikkim. Sikkim state is mainly inhabited by Lepcha tribes, Bhutia tribes and Nepali people. They use their indigenous knowledge of different ethnic plants for catching fishes easily. In the survey for collecting information structured questionnaire and informal interviews with the local people was done. During fishing operation 4-6 people use to make a group for collection of plants, preparation of plant paste by crushing and thereby putting the prepared paste in the holes between rock beds of the river. Employing this method the fisher folk are able to catch 2-10 kg of fish per fishing operation in a day depending upon the availability of fishes in the river. The fishing through this technique is suitable during the winter season from September to March.

Sixteen genotypes of Bhut Jolokia were evaluated in polyhouse with three replications at vegetable research farm, CHF, CAU, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh. Correlation and path analysis were carried out to study the character association and contribution, respectively. Correlation There was a great deal of significant variation for all the characters among the genotypes. In the present investigation, Correlation studies revealed that characters like weight of ripe fruit (0.966, 0.874), fruit length (0.622, 0.503), weight of dry fruit (0.905, 0.805), dry fruit yield per plant (0.903, 0.875) and capsaicin content (0.458, 0.393) was observed significant positive correlation with fruit yield per plant both at genotypic and phenotypic level. However, at genotypic level, weight of ripe fruit had maximum positive direct effect on fruit yield per plant (1.025) followed by dry fruit yield per plant (0.865), fruit length (0.236), ascorbic acid content (0.203). The findings of present study confirmed that, weight of ripe fruit, fruit length, weight of dry fruit, dry fruit yield per plant and capsaicin content were the important characters for selection and chilli breeding programme.