Impact of Fertilisation on Yield and Quality Parameters in Chickpea (Cicer Arietunum L.)

Abstract

The research presented in this paper aimed at the study of three native chickpea cultivars, as follows: the chickpea cultivars Burnas, Rodin, and Cicero 1. We set our experiments on a cambic, moist phreatic (poorly gleyed), poorly decarbonated chernozem on loessoid-dusty, clayish-loamy deposits of the experimental field of the Didactic Experimental Station of the Banat University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine in Timişoara (Timiş County, Romania). Among the experimental chickpea cultivars, the chickpea cultivar Burnas is to be noted for its mean yield in all three fertilisation rates: 2,994 kg/ha. The chickpea cultivar Rodin comes second, the difference between the two being very significant. Establishing fertilisation rates for the chickpea cultivars mentioned above is extremely important since biological materials were developed in different soil and climate conditions from the research area and from the area in which they are to be cultivated. The lowest yield was in the chickpea cultivar Cicero 1, the mean for the three fertilisation rates being 1,945 kg/ha. As for the fertilisation rates, the fertilisation variants N₅₀P₆₀K₆₀ and N₁₀₀P₆₀K₆₀ resulted in a very significant increase.