Vol. 8, Issue 10, Part I (2025)
Abstract
Results of a field experiment entitled “Effect of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) to phosphorus level and nipping operation” was carried out Research farm of the department of Agronomy, School of Agriculture Science, Technology & Research, Sardar Patel University, Balaghat (M.P.) during Rabi season of 2022-23. Twelve treatments comprised of combination of four phosphorus levels and three nipping operations were tried in a Factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications. The observation such as Effect of level of phosphorous and nipping operation on plant height, Number of branches per plant, Number of root nodules per plant, Fresh weight of plant, Dry weight of plant, Days taken to 50% of flowering at 30,60 and 90 DAS. Effect of level of phosphorous and nipping operation on yield attributing characters and yield of chickpea i.e. Number of pods per plant, Number of seed per plants, Test weight, seed yield per plant, Seed yield per plot, Seed yield per hectare, Stover yield per hectare, Harvest index. Effect of level of phosphorous and nipping operation on quality character of chickpea i.e. Protien content. The data pertaining to economic analysis of the treatment in term of cost of cultivation, Gross monetory return (GMR), Net monetory return (NMR) and benefit cost ratio (B:C) ratio. It was revealed from the FRBD experimentation that found significantly superior values of plant growth characters viz., plant height (58.09 cm at 90 DAS), number of branches per plant (10.00 at 90 DAS), number of root nodules per plant at 45 DAS (18.13), fresh weight of plant at 45 DAS (16.32 g) as well as dry weight of plant (9.38 g) were recording under treatment combinations of phosphorus @ 60 kg/ha with nipping operation at 40 DAS. The maximum values of yield attributing features, namely, number of pods per plant (45.60), number of seeds per pod (2.77) and test weight (133.06g), were recorded. The application of phosphorus @ 60 kg/ha with nipping operation at 40 DAS recorded significantly higher protein content in seed 21.21%.
