Chickpea Thrive: Unleashing Potential in Intercropping Systems with Different Organic and Natural Farming Practices

Background: The chemical use is hitting the sustainability in soil and decreasing its potency. The imbalanced and continuous use of chemical fertilizers in intensive cropping system has led to reduction in the crop yields and resulted in imbalance of nutrients in soil which has adverse effect on soil physico-chemical properties. Organic and natural farming presents a valid alternative approach to conventional farming due to its potential to contribute quite substantially to the global food supply, while reducing the detrimental environmental impacts of conventional agriculture. Hence, the current experiment aimed to evaluate chickpea based intercropping system for their response with seed spices, linseed and sorghum to evaluate their growth, yield attributes and yield. Methods: This study was conducted during the rabi season of 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 in at Centre for Organic Agriculture Research and Training, Department of Agronomy and analytical work was conducted at Center for Organic Agriculture Research and Training laboratory, Department of Agronomy, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola. Result: Results revealed that among various intercropping systems, significantly taller plants along with higher LAI, dry matter accumulation, yield attributes and yield were observed under sole chickpea and in organic nutrient modules highest growth parameters, yield attributes and yield were recorded with integration of both organic and natural farming practices.