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Prospects of new chickpea varieties in Andhra Pradesh

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Title Prospects of new chickpea varieties in Andhra Pradesh
 
Creator Jayalakshmi, V
Trivikrama Reddy, A
Kamakshi, N
Khayum Ahammad, S
Munirathnam, P
Gaur, P M
Samineni, S
Padmalatha, Y
Gopal Reddy, B
 
Subject Chickpea
 
Description Andhra Pradesh is an important chickpea growing state in
southern India, with spectacular increase in chickpea area
from 120,000 ha in 1997/98 to 638,000 ha in 2007/08. The
chickpea revolution in Andhra Pradesh has improved the prospects
of many resource-poor, small land holding and rainfed
farmers of Andhra Pradesh. However, the growing season of
chickpea in Andhra Pradesh is warm and short (90-110 days),
and drought is the foremost factor responsible for significant
yield losses. Rainfall in major chickpea-growing regions is quite
uncertain and erratic, resulting in poor yields. The Regional Agricultural
Research Station of Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural
University, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India is the lead centre
responsible for location-specific research in chickpea in Andhra
Pradesh. With support from ICRISAT and ICAR, the centre has
initiated crop improvement programmes during 2004 and has
released four promising chickpea varieties for commercial cultivation.
Three desi varieties viz., Nandyal Sanaga 1(NBeG 3),
Dheera (NBeG 47), and Nandyal Gram 49 (NBeG 49) released
for Andhra Pradesh and one large-seeded kabuli Nandyal Gram
119 (NBeG 119) released for the southern zone comprising
Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, are cutting across
chickpea growing regions of Andhra Pradesh. Nandyal Sanaga
1, released in 2012, is a bold-seeded desi variety tolerant to
drought and heat; Dheera released during 2015 is also a desi
variety and the first of its kind in India, suitable for mechanical
harvesting. Nandyal Gram 49 released during 2016 is a highyielding
desi variety with attractive seeds; whereas Nandyal
Gram 119 is early bold-seeded kabuli variety released during
2015. These varieties have clearly demonstrated their advantage
(10%-15 % increase over popular varieties of the tract)
in farmers’ holdings in large-scale demonstrations and are being
preferred by farmers of not only Andhra Pradesh, but also
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Maharastra. Efforts are underway
to promote large-scale adoption of these varieties to
maximize long term productivity of chickpeas in rainfed vertisols.
 
Date 2017-02
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10320/1/Prospects%20of%20new%20chickpea%20varieties%20in%20Andhra%20Pradesh.pdf
Jayalakshmi, V and Trivikrama Reddy, A and Kamakshi, N and Khayum Ahammad, S and Munirathnam, P and Gaur, P M and Samineni, S and Padmalatha, Y and Gopal Reddy, B (2017) Prospects of new chickpea varieties in Andhra Pradesh. In: InterDrought-V, February 21-25, 2017, Hyderabad, India.