EFFECT OF RHIZOBIUM AND PHOSPHATE SOLUBILIZING BACTERIA ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF DIFFERENT CHICKPEA (CICER ARIETINUM L.) CULTIVAR UNDER ORGANIC PRACTICESVIRENDRA, ANUP KUMAR SINGH, RAVINDRA SONI, SUNIL AGRAWAL AND TAPAS CHOWDHURYAbstract A field experiment was conducted during the rabi season of 2021-22, at instructional cum research farm of Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Raipur (C.G.) to study the âEffect of Rhizobium and Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria on growth and yield of different chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivar under organic practices.â In this experiment total eleven cultivar was used and all the cultivar chickpea were treated with liquid biofertilizer Rhizobium and PSB with three replications in the randomized block design. In this experiment result was found that the best variety response in biofertilizer application. Among all the treatment varieties T9 Vijay and T11 JG-14, in this trial these are the two varieties which performed very well at different stage of the crop growth. T9 (Vijay) it performed best in various characters like germination percentage at 91.91%, 50% flowering at 51 days, root length (20:40:20 kg/ha NPK+Rhizobium and PSB) recorded a significant maximum root length of 15.97 cm, grain yield (1423.76 Kg/ha), and straw yield (1730.32 kg/ha) and plant height 45.20 cm, number of nodules (57.33), performance in characters like no. of pods per plant, 54.29 pods. |