Vol. 7, Special Issue 6 (2019)
Identification of suitable chickpea varieties for Zone-III B in general and Buxar in particular through farmers’ participatory varietal selection approach
Author(s): Sunil Kumar, Shanti Bhushan and Prakash Singh
Abstract: Most of the land under cultivation in Bihar state is monocropped, yet chickpea occupies a substantive area as a sequence “rabi†crop under rainfed condition in typical medium rice fallow. In the recent years, chickpea cultivation has increased manifolds throughout the country to meet the consumption of growing population and forced to switch over to the development and use of its high yielding varieties. Lack of sufficient variability has been one of the major bottlenecks in the improvement of self fertilized crop like chickpea. The existing genotypes of chickpea have very poor productivity potential. It has thus realized that if some suitable good yielding genotypes of chickpea could be identified and improved upon such situation, a quantum jump in increasing area and thereby increasing production of chickpea could be possible in Bihar state. In this present investigation an effort has been made to analyse the total variability. Keeping these aspects in view, the present experiment was conducted at the Farmer’s field at Veer Kunwar Singh Agriculture College, Dumraon during the Rabi season of 2013-14 to 2016-17 in PVS mode. The material consisted of four genotypes of desi type and two Kabuli type which were evaluated for ten important quantitative three qualitative traits against local checks. The whole experiment was conducted in augmented block design. The result obtained in present investigation revealed that number of branches days to maturity, 100 seed weight, days to flowering are important yield contributing characters and hence these can be used for bringing yield improvement. The genetically divergent genotypes can be used as parents in hybridization programmes to develop superior genotypes. On the basis of mean performance of the germplasm, PG-186 and Pusa-372 for Desi type and Shubra for Kabuli type were found promising for more than one characters including grain yield and can be used for selection as genetically improved genotypes.
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Sunil Kumar, Shanti Bhushan and Prakash Singh. Identification of suitable chickpea varieties for Zone-III B in general and Buxar in particular through farmers’ participatory varietal selection approach. International Journal of Chemical Studies. 2019; 7(6): 369-373.
