Legume Research
Web of Science
  • Year: 2026
  • Volume: 49
  • Issue: 2

Weather based Yield Prediction of Pigeonpea Crop with the Resource Use Efficiency under Varied Sowing Windows

  • Author:
  • M.N. Thimmegowda1,*, M.H. Manjunatha1, G.S. Sathisha1, Lingaraj Huggi1, R. Jayaramaiah1, D.V. Soumya1, L. Nagesha2
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 268 to 275

1All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology, Bengaluru-560 065, Karnataka, India.

2Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa, All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology, Bengaluru-560 065, Karnataka, India.

*Corresponding Author: M.N. Thimmegowda, All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology, Bengaluru-560 065, Karnataka, India. Email: bng.aicrpam@gmail.com

Abstract

Sowing of crops at the optimal time is a non-cash input, which maximizes yield by effectively utilizing available resources. Choosing the best sowing time is crucial for exploiting a crop’s fullest potential in a specific environment with good agronomic management.

A long term experiment (2004-2020) was conducted at research farm under AICRP on Agro meteorology field unit, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru from 2004–2020 to find out the different sowing windows on the performance and resource use efficiencies in pigeonpea.

Long term (2004-2020) pooled data analysis reveals that, among the different sowing windows, early sown pigeonpea produced higher seed yield with effective utilization of the resources compared to the normal and late sown crops.

Keywords

Pigeonpea, Resource use efficiencies, Sowing windows