Vol. 12, Issue 9 (2023)

The new research work entitled “Evaluation of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Cultivars under organic production system” was performed at Research cum Instructional Farm IGKV, Raipur (C.G) during Rabi season of 2020-21. The Randomized Block Design was used to evaluate the experiment with three replications. The experiment consisted of 10 chickpea cultivars. After the rice harvest, the crop was organically cultivated under irrigated condition. The treatment consisted of different chickpea cultivars under organic production system. Chickpea cultivars viz. V1 - JAKI-9218, V2 - RG 2009-01, V₃ - Vaibhav, V₄ - RG 2009-16, V₅- JG-130, V₆ - Vishal, V₇ - JG-226, V₈ - Daftari-21, V₉ - JG-14 and V₁₀ - Indira chana-1. The result revealed that cultivar Vaibhav achieved the highest values for growth, yield attributes, and seed yield (1494 kg ha^-1). However, the seed yield of different chickpea cultivars was statistically at par with RG2009-01 and RG2009-16. The different cultivars of chickpea did not have a significant impact on soil chemical properties such as pH, EC, organic carbon, and available NPK. With respect to quality parameters, highest protein content (%) in seed for chickpea was recorded in the cultivar Indira chana-1 which was comparable to JG-14, Vaibhav, JAKI-9218, JG-13 cultivars. The lowest value of protein content (19.42%) was registered in JG-226. Among the all chickpea cultivars the highest net realization (Rs. 59481 ha^-1) and benefit cost ratio (2.88) was obtained with cultivar Vaibhav, followed by RG 2009-01 and RG 2009-16, i.e. (Rs. 56674 and 54592 ha^-1) respectively.