National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Chickpea is one of the major pulse crops in Bihar. Its productivity (1000 kg/ha) in the state is significantly higher than the national average of 841 kg/ha. Despite of huge potential and the comparative advantage, the production of chickpea in the state has experienced a major setback, owing to a drastic decline in the area under the crop about 60% till 2011, to identify the problem and opportunity, the study revealed that the average productivity of improved variety of chickpea in adopted villages ranged between 950 kg ha-1for improved varieties to 850 kg ha-1for local varieties. The per capita income in the adopted village is more than that of control village which 54% of income derived from the crop enterprises only. Comparative cost and benefit analysis indicated that pulses crop are more remunerative crop for Banka district compared to Bhagalpur district (1.6) as benefit cost ratio for local varieties was higher (1.9) in Banka. But for improved verities it was estimated higher in Bhagalpur (2.01). Constraints analysis indicated that moisture stress, high pod borer incidence, shortage of labor especially during harvesting and threshing and inappropriate selection of variety in flood affected area were the key critical constrains in the achieving high yield of chickpea.
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