The effect of seeding rates and intensifi cation technologies on the productivity of cicer arietinum cultivars

It was discovered that among the chickpea cultivars, Yarina had the highest productivity including 2.82–3.40 t/ha, which is signifi cantly higher compared to cultivars Pamyat and Triumf. Under conditions of suffi cient humidity of the western forest-steppe, the productivity of the chickpea was observed at a seeding rate of 0.8 M/ha. Lower seeding rates led to the decrease of productivity. It was revealed that without applying herbicides and fungicides, the chickpea remains a low-yielding crop (1.28 t/ha). It was discovered that the chickpea’s productivity grew up to 2.30 t/ha, or by 1.02 t/ha, when the soil herbicide Reiser KE (2.5 l/ha) was used. In case of the three-step application scheme of fungicides such as Rex Duo, KS(0.5 l/ha) at the early phase of budding, Abacus (1.5 l/ha) during fl owering, and Folikur 250 EW, EB (1.0 l/ha) during seed fi lling, the productivity increased by 0.90 t/ha compared to the variant where fungicides were not applied. In total, due to the use of plant protection products in the experiment, the productivity increased from 1.28 t/ha to 3.21 t/ha, i.e. by 1.93 t/ha (150.8%).