Evaluation of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivars with different crop geometries amenable to mechanical harvesting
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https://doi.org/10.59797/jfl.v32i2.684Keywords:
Chickpea, Cultivar, Grain yield, Plant geometryAbstract
The present investigation on evaluation of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivars suitable for mechanical harvesting under different plant geometries was conducted during rabi 2018-19 at the Research Farm of R.A.K. College of Agriculture Sehore (M.P.) under all India Co-ordinated Research Project on Chickpea. To compare the production potential and suitability of cultivars for mechanical harvesting, six chickpea cultivars (JG 16, NbeG 47, BG 30- 62, Phule-G 08108, JG 2016-24 and GBM 2) were tried at two plant geometries 22.5×10 cm and 30×10 cm. The crop was shown on second week of and harvested on third week of March. Various growth and yield attributing characters were studied. Cultivar NbeG 47 and plant geometry 30×10 cm recorded significantly higher number of branches plant-1, dry matter accumulation plant-1, number of pods plant-1 and grain yield plant-1 while cultivar Nbeg 47 and plant geometry 22.5×10 cm recorded significantly higher values of plant height plant-1 (cm), height of lowest pod from base (cm), grain yield kg ha-1. The interaction effect of cultivar Nbeg 47 with plant geometry 30×10 cm found significant for dry matter accumulation plant-1 (g), number of pods plant-1 and grain yield plant-1 (g) while the interaction effect of cultivar Nbeg 47 with plant geometry 22.5×10 cm found significant for plant height plant-1 (cm), height of lowest pod from base (cm), grain yield (kg ha-1).
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