Response of Pigeonpea Varieties to Time of Sowing During Rabi Season

Pigeonpea is one of the major crops which attract the farmers with its significant yields despite its demand in market. Moreover, full potential from Pigeonpea can be exploited by selecting suitable variety and optimum time of sowing during Rabi . But the information on the optimum date of sowing and suitable variety for Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.)) as post rainy season crop is meagerly available in literature. Hence, the present experiment is aimed to identify the optimum date of sowing and high yielding suitable Pigeonpea variety for Rabi. In this connection, a field experiment on ‘Response of Pigeonpea varieties to time of sowing during Rabi’ is carried out by considering four dates of sowing viz., September second fortnight(D1), October first fortnight(D2), October second fortnight(D3) and November first fortnight(D4) and three varieties viz., LRG- 41(V1), TRG- 22(V2) and ICPL- 85063(V3) using a Randomized Block Design with factorial concept in three replications for three successive years from 2010 to 2013. From the results, it can be inferred that TRG-22 and LRG-41 are better among the varieties suitable for post-rainy season. The second fortnight of September is identified as an optimum time of sowing during post-rainy season.