College of Agriculture, Bheemarayanagudi, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 580005, India.
Field experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of ten pigeon pea genotypes in kharif 2001 and 2002. Among the ten genotypes tested, DEPS 9 (2959.38 kg/ha) recorded significantly superior yield over two checks viz., GS 1 (2484.85 kg/ha) and ICP 8863 (2288.51 kg/ha). But it was on par with ICPL 87119(2641.51 kg/ha). It gave 19.1% and 29.3% higher yield over GS1 and ICP 8863, respectively.
Pigeon pea, Varietal performance, Irrigation