Chickpea Agronomy : Effect of production technology on yield and yield components of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under arid condition

Planting geometry (45 cm apart single rows x 8 cmplant to plant distance with in row), supplying ofirrigation water at 80 % available soil moisturedepletion of field capacity cum de-topping (removalof 2 cm growing tips) at 70 days after sowing, fertilizer banding cum seed inoculation withbiofertilizer, flat sowing with hand weeding at 30and 60 days after sowing and application of growthregulator (NAA) @ 200 ml ha-1 in three split doses,45, 90 and 135 days after sowing could improvechickpea seed yield up to 43.77 % by applying modernproduction technolog