IN VITRO AND FIELD PERFORMANCE OF SOME SEED TREATING FUNGICIDAL GROUPS ON GERMINATION, DISEASE INCIDENCE AND YIELD CONTRIBUTING CHARACTERS OF CHICKPEA (BARI Chola-10)

Md Shahriar Kobir,Md Harun-Or- Rashid,Pradip Hajong,Md Hafijur Rahman

doi:10.26480/asm.01.2020.45.50

Abstract

Low productivity of chickpea in Bangladesh is obtained due to different disease incidence and seed treatment by fungicides can minimize the disease severity. A laboratory and field experiment was conducted at Regional Agricultural Research Station, Jashore, Bangladesh to evaluate the effect of some seed treating fungicidal groups on germination, soil-borne as well as seed-borne disease incidence and yield contributing characters of chickpea (BARI Chola-10). In laboratory the experiment was conducted in CR design and in field condition the experiment was conducted in RCB design with three replications in both conditions. Five fungicides namely Provax 200 WP (Carboxin +Thiram), Secure 600 WG (Fenamidone + Mancozeb), Rovral 50 WP (Iprodione), Bavistin 50 WP (Carbendazim), Captan 50 WP along with control was maintained as experimental treatment. The fungicidal group treatments showed significant variation among the parameters except days to mature. The highest germination (92%), plumule length (31.22 mm), radicle length (12.26 mm), Vigor index (4015.5), Percent disease reduction over control (84%), plant height (63.67 cm), plants m- 2 (31), pods plant-1 (81), grain yield (2062.7 kg ha-1) and the lowest days to 50 % flowering (65), disease incidence (3.33%) was found when seeds were treated with fungicide Provax 200 WP (Carboxin +Thiram). To reduce the soil-borne as well as seed-borne disease incidence and to increase grain yield of chickpea, seed treatment with provax 200 WP should be followed.

Highlights

In the last year about 0.005 million metric ton chickpea was produced from 0.004 million ha of land in Bangladesh (AIS, 2020)
Five fungicides namely Provax 200 WP (Carboxin +Thiram), Secure 600 WG (Fenamidone + Mancozeb), Rovral 50 WP (Iprodione), Bavistin 50 WP (Carbendazim) and Captan 50 WP were collected from local market of Jashore
The highest (92%) germination was found in Provax 200 WP fungicide application which is statistically similar to Secure 600 WG and Rovral 50 WP application as seed treating chemical

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Introduction

Pulses are the leguminous crops which added additional nitrogen to the soil from atmosphere. It plays a vital importance in the daily diet of Bangladeshi people and in commercial agricultural market of Bangladesh (Kobir et al, 2019). It improves the quality of soil so far. In Bangladesh a total of 0.937 million metric ton pulses were grown from 0.78 million ha of land in the fiscal year of 2018-2019 (AIS, 2020). In the last year about 0.005 million metric ton chickpea was produced from 0.004 million ha of land in Bangladesh (AIS, 2020). The average yield of chickpea in Bangladesh is 1.19 ton per hectare whereas average global yield is about 1.8 ton per hectare (Merga and Haji, 2019)

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