Chickpea/Bengal gram

· Soaking the seeds in water before sowing enhances seed germination.

· For enhancing the disease resistance of the crop, coat the seeds with turmeric and sweet flag mixture and sow after 10 minutes. For one kg seed, use 50 g turmeric and 15 g sweet flag with 10 mL of water.

· Before sowing seeds are coated with mustard oil @ 100 mL /40 kg of seeds to impart resistance against wilt disease.

· Priming of seed with 225 ppm gibberellic acid increases the number of seeds per pod and grain yield.

· Treat the 10 kg of seeds with 250 g Rhizobium biofertilizer/phosphate solubilizing bacteria.

· 5 g of Trichoderma per kg chickpea can control wilting.