Response of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) to foliar application of organics under rainfed conditio

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of foliar nutrition in chickpea through organics under rainfedcondition in medium black soils at the Regional Agricultural Research Station, Vijayapur, during Rabi, 2020-21. The resultsrevealed that the foliar application of jeevamrutha @ 25% both at pre flowering and at pod initiation stages recordedsignificantly higher number of pods plant-1 (46.5), grain weight plant-1 (9.45 g), grain yield (2198 kg ha-1), haulm yield (2954kg ha-1), higher net returns (`73,619 ha-1) and BC ratio (3.74). While, lower pods plant-1 (30.9), grain weight plant-1 (6.79 g), grainyield (1277 kg ha-1), haulm yield (2126 kg ha-1), net returns (`33,662 ha-1) and BC ratio (2.35) were recorded in treatmentreceiving foliar application of bio digester filtrate @ 25% at pre flowering stage. The foliar application of either jeevamrutha@ 25% or cowurine @ 10% both at pre flowering and at pod initiation stages helped to increase growth and yieldparameters, seed yield and maximum net returns and benefit cost ratio in chickpea.