Vol. 12, Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Bhakti Patil, Dr. Vaibhav Rajemahadik, Dr. Prashant Bodake, Dr. Manish Kasture, Dr. Vijay More, Vishwajeet Kale, Saylee Patil and Mrunal Parve

Abstract:
The current study "Effect of irradiated chitosan on growth and yield of Green gram (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) in konkan region of Maharashtra". In the summer of 2022, a field experiment was carried out at the Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, Maharashtra. The experiment is comprised of Randomized Block Design with 6 treatments T₁: control, T₂: 30ppm, T₃:40ppm, T₄:60ppm, T₅:60 ppm, T₆:80 ppm which was replicated 4 times. 15 and 45 DAS were treated with foliar sprays of irradiation chitosan. 30x15 cm was the spacing used for sowing the green gram cultivar, TMB-37. Result found that growth parameters like plant height (cm), number of branches plant^-1, number of functional leaves plant^-1, dry matter accumulation plant^-1 (g) and yield attributing parameters like total number of pods plant^-1, average weight of pod (g), pod length (cm), number of grains pod^-1,test weight (g), grain yield (kg ha^-1), stover yield (kg ha^-1), total biomass production (kg ha^-1), harvest index (%) were recorded significantly maximum values in treatment T₆ (80ppm) over control.