Pre-sowing Seed Treatments with Selected Organics on Growth, Yield and Yield Attributing Traits in Chickpea Var Desi Himmat
Ummigari Harish *
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, NAI, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (Deemed to be University), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Prashant Kumar Rai
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, NAI, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (Deemed to be University), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The present study entitled, “Pre-Sowing Seed Treatments With Suitable Organics on Growth, Yield, Yield attributing Traits in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) var Desi Himmat” was carried out with Panchagavya, Neem Leaf Extract, Vermiwash, Tulsi Leaf Extracts of varying concentrates at the duration of 12 hrs. To assess these treatments' effects on Chickpea and find the optimal pre-sowing treatment. The results depicted that seed treatment showed significant variation for all the recorded characters and performed well compared to the untreated control. Seed treatment with T2-Panchagavya at 10% for 12 hrs. recorded field emergence of 92.33% and plant height at maturity 71.33 cms, days to 50% flowering is 63.67 days, and days to 50% pod setting 71.67 days, days to maturity is 106.33 days, 32.99 pods per plant, 1.91 seeds per pod, 14.33 gm seed yield per plant, 23.66 gm of 100 seed weight, 35.80 gm of biological yield per plant and 39.11% of harvest index. At par treatment, T4-Vermiwash at 8% for 12 hrs. performed well with 13.66 gm seed yield per plant, and the 36.52% harvest index was promising. Thus, treating T2-Panchagavya at 10% for 12 hrs. was so productive and can be suggested for cultivation on a commercial scale.
Keywords: Panchagavya, vermiwash, neem leaf extract, tulsi leaf extract