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PERFORMANCE, ADAPTABILITY AND YIELDING POTENTIAL OF LENTIL (LENS CULINARIS L.) CULTIVARS UNDER DROUGHT SITUATIONS AND CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIO OF QUETTA BALOCHISTAN

. SIRAJ AHMED, ZAFAR ULLAH , NADIR ALI, SAEED AHMED, ABDUL RAZZAQ REKI, ZIA-UL-HAQ, MUHAMMAD AZHAR SHAFIQUE & NASEERUDDIN


Abstract

Lentil (Lens culinaris L.) is mostly cultivated and is one of Pakistan's most significant grain legume crops. In Pakistan, lentil are a crucial food source throughout the winter, and their growth typically occurs in rainy places. The regular yield of lentil in Pakistan is near to the ground because of non-stop farming of little conventional yield, potential cultivars requiring extreme vegetative progress along with unfortunate reaction to contributions and enhanced agro-management performances. The demand for lentil around the globe is very high, and the increase in the importance of lentil is estimated to be constant as for the estimated demand of the globe and in improvement in the study of lentil as the growth of enhanced cultivars. The present study was based on lentil cultivars comparison for yield and growth components at the investigation at field under the Directorate of Pulses, Agriculture Research Institute, Sariab, Quetta (30°11′N 67°00′E), Balochistan, during Rabi season, 2019-20. The experiment was put up as an (RCBD) in a split plot arrangement with 3 replications. The plot size was 4 x 4 m sq;row length, row to row space was 30 cm and five lines for drilling of seeds. Treatments were: six cultivars, i.e. T1. Local Dasht Masoor, T2. 99503 Masoor, T3. PbMasoor 2009, T4. Sheraz 96 T5. Niab2002, and T6. NIA Nasoor 2005. The sowing of lentil cultivars was completed by single coulter hand drill in lines as recommended seed rate of 25 kg acr-1 was utilised for lentil cultivars. Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers were utilised at 20:50:30 NPK kg ha-1, correspondingly. The recorded parameters are times to flowering, days to 90% plant maturity, plant height (cm), Number of pods plant-1, seed index, seed plant-1,and Seed yield (kg ha-1).Days to 50% flowering days to 90% maturity, plant height, seed index, amount of pods plant-1yield per plot area and yield of grain per hectare (in kilogrammes) ranged from 146-125, 174-155, 38.84-28.17, 65-49, 2.26-1.60, 240.90-83.67 and 720.67-406.33, respectively. Sheraz 96 lentil cultivars’ production was declared successively higher than the other cultivars in response to entire growth, yield and yield enhancing characters excluding plant height and plant-1number. The maximum heights of plant had been recorded in Local Dasht Masoor (38.84cm) variety though the higher quantity of pods plant-1has been documented inNiab 2002 (65).

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