Pigeonpea Botany and Production Practices

Compiled By  Faujdar Singh and D L Oswalt                                             Click here for the PDF file

This Skill Development Series contains following topics.

Introduction

• Origin and Distribution
• Pigeonpea Plant
• Inflorescence Flowering and Pollination
• Pod Development
• Seed and its Germination

Production Practices

• Climate
• Soils
• Land Preparation
• Response to Nutrients
• Cropping Systems
• Sowing Time and Depth
• Methods of Sowing and Spacing
• Seed Rate and Seed Treatment
• Weed Management
• Irrigation
• Harvesting and Threshing
• Recording Observations

Management Procedures (MP)

MP 1. Determination of Seed Rate for a Given Plant Density

MP 2. Recording Morphological Characters

References

Evaluation

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