2025, Vol. 8, Issue 5, Part J

author(s)
Thakare JS, GA Bhalerao, Shirale SP and Shelke VR

abstract
A field experiment was conducted during the rabi season of 2023-24 at Post Graduate Experimental Farm, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, VNMKV, Parbhani. The experiment was laid out in Split Plot Design with Twelve treatments in three replications by keeping sowing time (D₁: 12^th October, D_2: 26^th October, D_3: 9^th November and D₄: 23^rd November) as a first factor and Varieties (V₁: Varun, V₂: Phule Viraj and V₃: Phule Rajma) as a second factor. Results revealed that, among the sowing dates regarding the yield characters like No. of pods^-1(9.33), No. of seeds per/pod (3.47), pod dry weight/plant (8.39 g), wt. of seeds/pod (0.75 g), seed weight/plant (6.77 g), straw yield/plant (11.66 g) and seed index (21.80 g) was recorded maximum in variety Phule Viraj. However, the No. of pods^-1(8.25), No. of seeds per/pod (2.39), pod dry weight/plant (7.44 g), wt. of seeds/pod (0.47 g), seed weight/plant (3.29 g), straw yield/plant (8.21 g) and seed index (20.27 g) yield character was found to be lowest in variety Varun. On the basis of present studies results revealed that, treatment D₃ (November 9^th) can satisfactorily produce the higher yield attributing characters viz., No. of pods/plant, No. of seeds/pod, Pod dry weight/plant (g), Wt. of seeds/pod (g), Seed weight/plant (g), straw yield/plant (g) and seed index (g) which was significantly superior over rest of treatments and it was found to at par with the treatment D₂ which was sown on October 26^th. Whereas, lowest value were recorded in treatment (D₁) which sown on October 12^th. But in case of highest Gross returns and net returns (108021 & 62893 ? ha^-1) and BCR (3.11) which obtained in treatment D₃. While highest net returns obtained in Variety Phule Viraj (59101 ? ha^-1) and BCR (2.77).