Production and quality of chickpea seeds in different sowing and harvest periods
Ramon Ivo Soares Avelar Cândido Alves da Costa Delacyr da Silva Brandão Júnior Humberto Alencar Paraíso Warley Marcos Nascimento
The objective of this study was to evaluate the production, and the physical and physiological quality of ‘BRS
Aleppo’ chickpea seeds in the city of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State, and their ideal harvest point. A randomized complete
block design was used, in a 3x5 factorial arrangement, with three sowing periods (May 12th, June 23rd and July 22nd 2015)
and five harvest seasons (100, 107, 114, 121 and 128 days after sowing) with seven replications. The following productive
parameters were determined: number of seeds, number of empty pods, production and yield. For seed quality evaluations, the
completely randomized design was used. The following evaluations were done: seed moisture content, dry matter, biometry,
1,000-seed weight and germination. For the harvest season factor, data were submitted to analysis of variance and comparisons
average by Tukey’s test (p<0.05). The regression analysis was performed and coefficients were tested with the t-test. Seed
production was higher when sowing was done in May and when the harvest was performed close to 114 days after sowing,
with a yield reaching 5.31 ton/ha-1 and 10.7% seed moisture
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