Seed quality of the facelia-variety NS Priora grown in Serbia

Abstract

Phacelia has been used for seed production and as a forage crops, either on its own or in a mix with peas or vetch to provide forage and honey production as a source of high quality nectar and pollen. The experiment was carried out in 2016, in the fields of the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Bački Petrovac, in Serbia, with variety NS Priora. NS Priora had plant flowering continualy over 60 days and had high, good quality grain yield. NS Priora variety had average nitrogen content is 3.21%, protein content was 20.06% and the average thousand seeds weight was 1.42 g. Phacelia is presently very intensively used in organic agriculture and for sowing of arable land temporarily excluded from production which achieves high yields.