Farm Science Journal

Irish Interdisciplinary Journal of Science & Research (IIJSR), 2023

Chickpea is the important winter legume crop among all the pulse crops in India. Diversification and intensification of the rice-fallow system by using chickpea has been demonstrated at farmer’s field, resulting in adoption by farmer’s in some regions. The main driving forces behind the adoption at farm level were cost saving, timely planting and improved system productivity and profitability. In the Gangetic Alluvial Regions (GAR), farmers, encouraged by higher yields of rice and wheat dwarf varieties, intensified their cropping systems, and improved the national crop productivity. Nonetheless, some of areas especially in the eastern parts of Gangetic plains could not take advantage of improved infrastructures like electrical power, groundwater development, irrigation canals, roads and government managed procurement of farm commodities etc. Sowing a second rainfed crop after rainfed rice depends on availability of residual moisture in the soil and provisions of supplementary tube well irrigation. Deficit rainfall or lack of ground water lifting facility results in large areas remaining 'rice-fallow' during the winter season. Recent estimates suggest that 40% of kharif rice areas remain fallow in winter either due to lack of irrigation or inappropriate crop establishment methods used for raising a winter season chickpea. This includes approximately 11.65 million ha rice-fallow area in India alone in the states of West Bengal (1.72 m ha). A good combination of agronomic package and practices have been developed but the principal constraint remained the difficulty in establishing a reasonable crop stand once the surface layers of the soil had dried out. There is ample scope of chickpea as a second crop with full packages practices in Gangetic alluvial regions, chickpea favours moderate soil moisture for their growth and development which is available in this soil.

Pakistan journal of biotechnology, 2023

Pakistan journal of biotechnology , 2023

This research study was carried across the field of 14 farmers of subdivision (tahseel) Hyderabad (rural), Sindh province of Pakistan during Rabi season, 2021-22 to evaluate the performance of the chickpea variety DG-92 as well as to find out the potency of a new chickpea belt in Sindh province of Pakistan. The field study was conducted in a three replicated randomized complete block design (RCBD). Different fields of fourteen (14) farmers were taken as treatments, these were (T1

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 2018

Legume Research- An International Journal, Volume 47 Issue 1: 74-77 (January 2024)

Background: The concerned scientists of KVK, Ratlam (Madhya Pradesh) had organized front line demonstrations (FLDs) on chickpea production during rabi season of 2017-18 and 2019-20. Methods: During 2017-18 and 2019-20 in rabi season, one hundred seventy five cluster front line demonstrations were conducted on chickpea crop by KVK covering whole Ratlam district at Jaora, Sailana, Alote and Piploda blocks using chickpea variety JAKI 9218 and JG 14. Besides, demonstrations were conducted ensuring timely sowing with recommended seed rate and spacing, balanced use of fertilizers and integrated pest management practices. Result: The results revealed that 26.44 per cent yield increment was observed in the demonstration plots as compared to existing farming practices of chickpea due to adoption of improved package of practices.

LEGUME RESEARCH - AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

Background: The major constraint in rainfed chickpea cultivation is unavailability of short duration, wilt resistant and high yielding varieties in Chamarajanagara district. In this regard, an investigation was carried out to identify suitable high yielding varieties for Chamarajanagara District, Karnataka (Zone-6). Methods: As a part of on farm testing of ICAR-KVK, Chamarajanagara conducted a field experiment during rabi 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 (Three years) in farmers field at Kotamballi village. Four chickpea varieties viz., Annigere-1, JG-11, Jaki-9218 and BGD-103 were tested under randomized complete block design (RCBD) which was replicated seven times. Result: The study revealed that chickpea variety BGD-103 recorded significantly higher grain yield (14.28 q/ha) and per cent protein content (20.10%) with the minimum disease incidence of 7.93 per cent. The growth and yield parameters were also better with BGD-103 variety as compared to other varieties. The highest wilt inc...

Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 2017

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) commonly known as gram or Bengal gram is the most important pulse crop of India which alone has nearly 75 percent of the world acreage and production of Gram. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the growth and instability of such important crop i.e. chickpea. For the present study, Amravati district from Maharashtra state was chosen purposively as area under chickpea is reported highest in this district. The study was based on secondary data pertained to the year i.e. 1994-95 to 2014-15. The result revealed that Chickpea is the most important pulse crop in Amravati district, the growth rate for area of production of chickpea were found significant. Instability studied in chickpea indicate, that productivity under chickpea exhibited more yield. It means that production of chickpea over the period has been almost high.

2021

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sri Ganganagar (Rajasthan) conducted 250 frontline demonstrations on chickpea variety GNG-1958 (Marudhar) over an area of 100 hectares during rabi season of 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. The results of the demonstrations revealed that on an average seed yield of chickpea under improved technology ranged from 17.85 to 19.57 q/ha with a mean of 18.52 q/ha which was 15.33 per cent more yield as compared to local check. Moreover, the seed yield also recorded substantially higher under demonstration (18.52 q/ha) over district average (11.73 q/ha) and state average (11.02 q/ha). Further, findings of the study revealed that from one hectare average additional yield 2.57 q/ha, net monetary return ₹47565/ha, additional returns ₹10404/ha, effective gain ₹8289/ha and benefit: cost ratio 2.65 were obtained under improved technology as compared to farmers’ practice. The average technology gap (5.48 q/ha), extension gap (2.57q/ha) and technology index (22.82%) were found.

This paper documents the status of chickpea in terms of production and productivity, ruling varieties, preferences and constraints encountered by the farmers as well as functionaries along the value chain, economics of chickpea, marketing opportunities, marketable surplus and finally to track the supply chain. Based on household survey conducted in 2011-12 in two districts (ChapaiNawabgonj and Rajshahi) of Bangladesh, it revealed that among the studied competitive crops, highest benefit cost ratio was calculated for chickpea (2.1 for adopted and 1.9 for control farmers) followed by mustard (1.9 for adopted and 1.8 for control farmers). The income from crops was a major source among farmers across districts. In both the districts, farmers preferred BARI Chola-5 for high yield (Rank-1) followed by fit into existing cropping patterns (Rank-2) and disease resistance (Rank-3). The major constraints in the existing cultivars as expressed by the farmers that high diseases incidence (ranked-1) followed by high pod borer incidence (ranked-2) and long duration (ranked-3) for BARI Chola-5 in Rajshahi district.