2024, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part A

author(s)
Amol S Rathod, JD Jadhav, VM Londhe, VT Jadhav, SV Bagade, VA Sthool, AM Khobragade and YE Kadam

abstract
Field experiment was conducted to study the effect of weather parameters on growth and yield of chickpea crop under different sowing windows during rabi seasons of 2020-21 and 2021-22 at Zonal Agricultural Research station, (ZARS) Solapur. An experiment was laid out in split plot design with four replications. The treatments comprised of four sowing windows i.e. S1 - 38 MW (17-23 Sept.), S2 – 40 MW (01-07 Oct.), S3 – 42 MW (15-21 Oct) and S4 (28 Oct- 04 Nov) as a main plot and two chickpea varieties viz. V1– Vijay, and V2 – Digvijay as a sub plot. Results revealed that Plant height, dry matter, number of pods, weight of pods, 100 seed weight, seed rain yield, Straw yield decreased with successive delay in sowing. Among all the sowing dates, S1 (38 MW) sowing window in the experimental trial of 2020-21 and S2 (40 MW) sowing window during experimental trial of 2021-22, recorded the higher growth attributes viz., plant height (45.50 and 48.79 cm), mean dry matter per plant (19.30 g and 21.86 g), Number of pods plant^-1 (37.00 and 40.0), Weight of pods plant^-1 (g) (9.64 and 10.38), and 100-seed weight (g) (23.9 and 24.36 g), Grain yield (kg ha^-1) (1061.2 and 1164.2 kg ha^-1) and straw yield (1491.2 and 1622.2 kg ha^-1) was maximum in (S1) 38^th MW sowing window for 2020-21 and (S2) 40^th MW sowing window for the 2021-22 respectively. Among the two screening varieties, at harvest (V2) Digvijay recorded the highest growth attributes viz., mean plant height (44.73 and 47.88 cm) and dry matter plant^-1 (16.67 and 16.97g), Whereas, yield contributing characters, Number of pods plant^-1 (33.06& 36.06) Weight of pods plant^-1 (g) (8.68 and 9.50 g), and 100-seed weight (g) (9.31 & 21.17) were highest in Digvijay over Vijay during both the experimental trials of 2020-21 and 2021-22, respectively.