Integrated Pest Management

•  Insect Management 

•  Disease Management 

•  Weed Management 

•  Nematode Management 

•  Nutrient Disorder Management 

•  Resistant Varieties Information

•  Natural Enemy Information

•  IPM Modules

Agronomic Practices

Field Preparation

• Chick pea requires a well aerated well drained, properly clean and rough seed bed.
• So that the root growth is facilitated and higher nodulation is promoted.

• If kharif crop is not taken then prepare the field by applying two harrowing and then leveling the field by leveler or patta after cessation of rains for soil moisture conservation.

• One deep ploughing followed by one to two harrowing should be done, deep ploughing should be done once in every two to three years.

• If required planking should be done.

• If the field is having weed problem then stale seed bed technique can be used.

• Let a heavy flush of weeds emerge and be destroyed with herbicide before sowing.

• Most of the weeds seeds germinate from the top 5cm of soil surface in about a weeks time, these weed seedlings can be destroyed either with a contact herbicide or by shallow type tillage implement like a spike tooth harrow.

• In stale seed bed technique depending upon the availability of time and resources one or two flushes of weeds can be destroyed before planting of the crop.

Seed & Sowing

• Seed treatment is very essential to prevent the crop from soil borne diseases.
• The seed treatment is done by treating 1.00 kilogram of seed with 3 gm of Captan, or Thiram or Agrosan GN plus 1.5 gm of Bavistin.
• The treatment of gram seeds should be done before seed inoculation so that the coating of the fungicide first adheres to the seed.

Harvest

• The harvesting of the crop is done when the whole plant or a majority of plant parts begin to turn reddish to brown in colour.
• The grains also turn reddish brown and the pod colour is turned into light brown to golden brown in colour.
• The plants are harvested by plucking the plants or by cutting them with the help of sickle, in some places the plants are directly uprooted in the field.
• After harvesting the the plants are sun dried so that the excess moisture is drained out from the grain.
• The moisture in the grains should not exceed above 12 - 14 percent.