Author(s):

Dinesh Sah, Mukul Kumar and Siddhartha Singh

Abstract: Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) is the important pulse crop grown mainly on residual soil moisture in rabi season. There is an ample scope for expansion of area under pulse crop like lentil in conserved soil moisture in North Eastern Hill Region of India where a large part of area remains fallow after the kharif season rice. In view of this, a field evaluation of nine most promising lentil varieties was conducted under conserved soil moisture at College of Horticulture & Forestry, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh, India during 2015-16 and 2016-17 to identify the most suitable lentil varieties under residual soil moisture condition in rice fallows. The data of two year experiment revealed that lentil variety IPL-316 exhibited maximum seed yield (11.03 q/ha) with minimum days to maturity (116 days). The other varieties with considerably fair seed yield performance were DPL 62 (6.49 q/ha), HUL 57 (6.10 q/ha) and WBL 77 (5.68 q/ha) with 127, 118 and 130 days to maturity. Linear relationship of seed yield with branches/plant and pods/plant indicated that these two traits should be considered for selection of high yielding varieties/lines, however, a quadratic relationship of seeds/pod and 1000 seed weight was observed with seed yield. The significant yield performance of lentil varieties clearly showed that there is enough opportunity of lentil cultivation in rice fallow with appropriate technologies for enhancing farmers’ income as well as food and nutritional security of the region.

DOI: 10.22271/phyto.2020.v9.i5o.12376

Pages: 1084-1087  |  1088 Views  553 Downloads

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