Vol. 12, Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Sanjeev Prakash Shrivastava, Kanak Saxena, Vikash Singh Thakur and Jitendra Mandrah

Abstract:
The chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), a self-pollinated pulse crop that is botanically a member of the Fabaceae family, is one of the most significant rabi pulse crops in India and makes up about 20% of all pulse production worldwide. During the rabi seasons of 2020–2021 and 2021–22, the experiment was carried out at the Institute Farm, S.R.K College of Agriculture, Bhopal (M.P.). The findings showed that biological yield/plant had a direct and favorable impact on grain yield/plant and that it also had an indirect impact via 100-seed weight, followed by pods/plant. The trait harvest index significantly affected the number of pods per plant, which in turn affected grain yield per plant.