Effect Of Seed Priming And Fungicide Treatment On  Chickpea (Cicer Arietinum) Sown At Different Sowing Depths In  Kandi Belt Of Low Altitude Sub-Tropical Zone Of Jammu

Vikas Gupta; Mahender Singh

doi:10.48165/

Authors

Vikas Gupta AICRP for Dryland Agriculture, DLRSS, Rakh Dhiansar, SK University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu, Bari Brahmana, Samba, J&K - 181 133 (India)
Mahender Singh AICRP for Dryland Agriculture, DLRSS, Rakh Dhiansar, SK University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu, Bari Brahmana, Samba, J&K - 181 133 (India)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Dry matter accumulation, growth, fungicide, sowing depth, yield

Abstract

Field experiments were conducted during rabi 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 at PRSS, Samba, SKUAST-Jammu in Inceptisols to find out the effects of seed priming, sowing depth and seed treatment with fungicide on chickpea. The treatments consisted of seed priming (seed soaking in water for 8 h), sowing depth (7.5 and 10 cm) and seed treatment with carbendazim 50WP. The observations on plant height, nodule dry weight, seed index, dry matter accumulation, yield and yield attributes of chickpea were recorded. The results revealed that the growth parameters of chickpea were significantly affected by seed priming, sowing depth and seed treatment with fungicide. Dry matter accumulation, yield and yield attributes differed significantly with seed priming and sowing depth. Plant height of chickpea showed significantly highly correlation with nodule dry weight accumulation which, in turn, enhanced the seed and biological yield with the accuracy of 87%.

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