Vol. 8, Issue 7 (2019)

The experiment consisted of two factors viz., two dates of sowing (D₁-1^st fortnight of June and D₂-1^st fortnight of July) as first factor and four varieties (V₁- Vipula, V₂- Rajeshwari, V₃- BDN-711 and V₄- PKV-Tara) as second factor.

The sowing during 1^st fortnight of June registered more number of pods per plant (367.70), pod yield per plant (102.11 g), pod yield per hectare (3191.05 kg), seed yield per plant (68.42 g) and seed yield per hectare (2138.01 kg) as spraying during against 1^st fortnight of July(343.96, 95.51 g, 2984.57 kg, 63.99 g and 1999.66 kg, respectively). D₁ (1^st fortnight of June) shows better performance of yield per hectare (6.48%) than D₂ (1^st fortnight of July) sowing.

Vipula (V1) registered relatively higher values for number of pods per plant (391.19), pod yield per plant (108.63 g), pod yield per hectare (3394.61 g), seed yield per plant (72.78 g) and seed yield per hectare (2274.39 kg) against PKV-Tara (V4) (281.71, 78.18 g, 2442.97 kg, 52.38 g, 1636.79 kg, respectively). The next higher values for seed yield component were recorded in BDN-711 (V3) (383.80, 106.65 g, 3332.89 kg, 71.46 g and 2233.04 kg, respectively). The consistent results were recorded for different dates of sowing with varieties and their interaction effect.