Yield potential of Pigeonpea varieties under System of Pigeonpea Intensification (SPI)

Author: S.B. Agrawal, Shani Gulaiya, Priya Kochale and Ashish Kumar

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Abstract

A field experiment was conducted at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, JNKVV, Jabalpur for two consecutive years of 2016 and 2017 during Kharif seasons. Treatments consisted of Seven pigeon pea varieties having different maturity periods viz. V1 (TJT-501) V2 (ASHA), V3 (DURGA), V4 (ICPL 88039), V5 (UPA5 120), V6 (Manak) and V7 (JKM 189) were tested in a randomized block design replicate thrice. Pigeon pea varieties were sown 8th and 10th June 2016 and 2017 respectively in a black poly bags. Thirty days old seedlings were transplanted on 10th and 12th July 2016 and 2017 respectively. Result of study reveal that variety TJT 501 attended the significantly higher plant height (192.8 cm) with girth of 3.10 cm. and bears a primary (13.6/plant and recorder branches (30.1/plant) closely followed by ASHA. These two varieties proved significantly superior over rest of varieties. As regards to the nodules the highest counts of nodules on per plant were recorded (45/plant) closely followed 40.33/plant under TJT 501 and ASHA respectively. The top ranking varieties TJT 501 recorded significantly higher number of pods/plant (376.6) and 4.03 seeds per pod; the mark variety recorded the lowest count of pods 202.7/plant and 3.26 seeds/pod. The seed and stalk yields of 2173.88 and 6813.48 kg ha-1, respectively were recorded under TJT-501 closely followed by ASHA (2062.64 and 6462.50 kg/ha) and JKM 189 (2033.62 and 6493.20 kg/ha) seed and stack yields, respectively. The top yielded variety TJT 501 fetched net returns of Rs. 94606 with highest (3.28) cost benefit ratio.

Keywords

System of pigeonpea intensification (SPI), transplanting, yield potential, root nodule and seedling

Conclusion

From the above findings is may be concluded that the verity TJT 501 proved superior with respect to growth and yields and fetched net returns of Rs. 94606/ha with B:C ratio of 3.28 under system of pigeon pea intensification (SPI).

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How to cite this article

S.B. Agrawal, Shani Gulaiya, Priya Kochale and Ashish Kumar (2021). Yield potential of Pigeonpea varieties under System of Pigeonpea Intensification (SPI). Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(1): 790-792.