Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Shubham Singh, Dr. AK Srivastava, Abhishek Singh and Prajjwal Agnihotri

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2020-2021 at the Student’s Instructional Farm of Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur U.P. India, to study the “Effect of Rhizobium and PSB inoculation and foliar spray of micronutrient on yield, quality attributes and production economics of Kabuli chickpea (Cicer Kabulium L.)”. the study was conducted in Randomized block design with three replications. The treatments comprised of with 8 different treatment combination. T₁ – control, T₂ – soil application of Rhizobium @ 1.5 kg ha^-1, T₃ – soil application of PSB @ 1.5 kg ha^-1, T₄ – seed treatment with Rhizobium @ 200 g/10 kg seeds, T₅ - seed treatment with PSB @ 200 g/10 kg, T₆ – Foliar application of micronutrients mixture before flowering @ 0.5 g/litre, T₇ – Foliar application of micronutrients mixture after 50% flowering @ 0.5 g/litre, T₈ – Foliar application of micronutrients mixture after 50% podding @ 0.5 g/litre. The chickpea crop (Shubhra) was sown at 30 x 10 cm spacing. It was observed that the highest seed yield (17.33 q ha^-1), biological yield (41.43 q ha^-1) and harvest index (41.74%) were found when (seed Inoculated with Rhizobium @ 200 g/10 kg seed (T₄), followed by the T₆ i.e. seed yield 17.03 q ha^-1, biological yield 40.90 q ha^-1, harvest index 41.64%. whereas minimum value was in control, (seed yield 13.33 q ha^-1, biological yield 31.43 q ha^-1). The highest net return and B:C ratio was found in T₄ treatment (Seed Inoculation of Rhizobium @ 200 g/10 kg seed) i.e., Rs 48,831 and 1.99 respectively, followed by T₆ Treatment– (Foliar application of micronutrients mixture before flowering @ 0.5 g/liter) Rs 46,783 and 1.94 respectively. The lowest Net returns i.e., Rs 25,297 and B:C ratio i.e., 1.51 was found in T₁ Treatment or control.