Pre-sowing Seed Treatments with Panchagavya, Jeevamrutha and Beejamrutha on Growth, Yield and Yield Attributing Traits in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Variety-RVG202
Raghuvallu Dileep Kumar *
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SHUATS, Prayagraj – 211007, (U.P), India.
Prashant Kumar Rai
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SHUATS, Prayagraj – 211007, (U.P), India.
Bineeta Michael Bara
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SHUATS, Prayagraj – 211007, (U.P), India.
G. Venkata Raju
Department of Agronomy, SHUATS, Prayagraj – 211007, (U.P), India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The field experiment entitled Pre-sowing seed treatments of Panchagavya, jeevamrutha and beejamrutha on growth, yield and yield attributing traits in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) variety- RVG 202 was conducted during Rabi 2021 at field experimental center, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SHUATS, Prayagraj, (U.P). The trail was laid out in Randomized Block Design with Twelve treatments and control which were replicated thrice. The treatments are as follows, TO- Control, (T1, T2, T3, T4, - Panchagavya – 3%, 5%, 7% and 9%), (T5, T6, T7 and T8 – Jeevamrutha - 3%, 5%, 7% and 9%), (T9, T10, T11, T12 – Beejamrutha - 3%, 5%, 7% and 9%) respectively. The experiment results revealed that seeds treated with T8 – Jeevamrutham – 9% gave better than other treatments viz, Field emergence, days for 50% flowering and has matured earlier, Days to 50% pod setting, Plant height, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, seed yield per plant, biological yield per plot, Harvest index, Seed index, were significantly higher compared to the other treatments.
Keywords: Chickpea, Panchagavya, Jeevamrutha, Beejamrutha