Abstract

SUMMARYA field experiment was made with pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, during the rainy seasons of 1975 and 1976 to study the effects of plant type, plant population density and the application of phosphate fertilizer on growth and yield of pigeon pea. Cultivars BS-1 and UPAS-120 produced significantly more grain with 100 × 103 plants/ha, whereas the cultivar Prabhat produced most when 200 × 103 plants/ha were grown. Application of 13 kg P/ha increased most growth and yield attributes and increased the grain yield significantly over the control to which no P was given; however, no additional increase was obtained when 26 kg P/ha was given. The highest-yielding cultivar BS-1 benefited most from phosphate fertilizer.

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