Pulse Crop 1

Sr.No	Common name	Red gram(Pigeon pea,tur)	Bengal Gram (Harbara, Chana)	Kidney bean (Matki)	Green gram (Mung)
1	Botanical name	Cajanus indicus	Cicer arietinum	Phaseolus aconitifolus	Phaseolus aureus
2	Origin	Africa	Afghanistan, Iran	India	India
3	Climate	Fairly moist and warm climate	Winter(Rabi)	Warm weather	Warm climate
4	Soil	Well drained, medium to heavy soils	Well drained light to medium	Sandy loam. Light to medium	Fertile, well drained. Black heavy
5	Preparatory tillage	Deep ploughing, clod crushing and 2 to 3 harrowings	1 ploughing, 2 harrowings	1 ploughing, 2 cross harrowings	1 ploughing, 2 harrowings
6	Seed and sowing
	i) Time of sowing	Later part of June or early July	Rabi season. 2nd week of Oct.	Kharif-June-July	Kharif, summer
	ii) Method of sowing	Drilling Dibbling 2 to 3 seeds/hill	Drilling	Drilling	Drilling
	iii) Spacing	Early var – 45X20cm2 Midlate var – 60X30cm2 Late varieties- 75X30cm2	30cm	30cm or 45X10cm2	22 to 30cm
	iv) Seed rate	Mixed – 6 to 9kg/ha Sole – 15 to 20kg/ha	40 to60 kg/ha	Sole 15 to 18 kg/ha Mix 4 to5kg/ha	18 to 20 kg/ha
7	Manure and fertilizer	6 tones/ha FYM 25kg/ha N 50 kg/ha P at the time of sowing	10 tons/ha fym Kg/ha N P K Irrigated 25 50 0 Rain fed 15 30 0	6 to 10 tons/ha N P K kg/ha 25 50 0 at sowing	3 to 5 tons/ha N-20kh/ha P-20 to 25kg K-0 at sowing
8	After care	2 hoeings & 2 weedings	1 to 2 weedings		1 to 2 hand weeding
9	Water management	1 to 2 irrigations	2 Irrigation	Kharif No irrigation	Summer at an interval of 15 days
10	Harvesting	120 to 125 days Early var130 to 170 days Midlate 180 to 190 days Late	100 to 120 days	125 to 135 days	Early 60 to 70 days Late-100 to 110 days
11	Yield	Mixed 2 to 8 q/ha Sole 10 to 12q/ha	Rain fed – 5 to 6q/ha Irrigated- 10 to 12 q/ha	8 to 10 q/ha	5 to 6 Q/ha
12	Varieties	Early-type-21 Prabhat,BS-1 I CPL-67 Mid – BDN-1,2 T.Vishakha, Sharda Late – C-11, P.T.301	Chafa, N-59,N-31 Waragal, Deccan, B-P-N-9-3, Phule G-1,G-5	MBS-27, No.88 Dhule No.3-5	Jalgaon-781, Pusa-vaishakhi, Kopergaon, Tap-7, S-8,T-44