Vol. 11, Issue 6 (2022)

Author(s):
K Rama Subbaiah, D Sampath Kumar and T Mahesh Babu

Abstract:
Red gram (Cajanus cajan) is an important pulse crop in Andhra Pradesh state. The area under Red gram crop in Anantapuramu district is about 65,000 hectares, which is under Rainfed cultivation during Kharif season, as a sole or intercrop. The present study was conducted by DAATTC, Anantapuramu in the kahrif season with 15 demonstrations across 5 villages of Anantapuramu district. The main objective of this study is to assess the performance of various red gram variety minikits in the farmer field condition under rainfed situation. The results revealed that the demo variety LRG-105 had shown highest average yield (449.86 kg/ha), highest no. of branches/plant (10), No. of pods/plant (83) and test weight (11 g) as compare to control variety LRG – 419 seed yield (402.33 kg/ha), no. of branches/plant (8), No. of pods/plant (70) and test weight (10 g). The increase in demonstrated minikit variety yield over farmers’ practices was 12.86%.