Indian Journal of Agronomy
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 57
  • Issue: 2

Effect of sowing dates and plant population on chickpea (Cicer arietinum) genotypes

  • Author:
  • Dasharath Prasad1,, A.S. Bangarwa2, Satish Kumar, Asha Ram1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 206 to 208

1IARI, New Delhi

2Department of Agronomy

Choudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, 125 004

*Corresponding author Email: dashrath.sagar@gmail.com

Based on a part of M.Sc. thesis of the first author submitted to CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during 2009 (unpublished)

Abstract

Results of the field experiment conducted during 2007–08 at Hisar, revealed superiority of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes ‘HC-1’ in term of pods/plant,100-grain weight, seed and biological yields and harvest index over ‘BG-372’ and ‘PBG-1’. Significant decline in growth and yield attributing characters and yield was recorded, when sowing was delayed from December 1 to December 20. Planting geometry of 30 × 7.5 cm yielded significantly higher than 30 × 10 cm.

Keywords

Chickpea genotype, Plant population, Sowing dates, Yield