FIELD PLOT TECHNIQUE STUDIES WITH CHICK PEA

Abstract

Chickpea is one of the oldest crop as it was known to the ancient Egyptian. Nowaday,it is one of the most important importance winter leguminous crop on Egypt. as a source of vegetable protein Its

has increased due to the shortage of animal protein.Its seed slso provide a food of high calorific and nutritive value. the area under chickpea, in Egypt, is about 13264 feddan which is mainly concentrated in Assiut and

EL- Behera provinces.

Its annual production is nearly 70299 ardabs with an average yield of 5.30 ardabs per feddan, (one avrab = 150 kg) . The present study was designed to find out the

optimum plot size,

shape and suitable number of replications for chickpea field trials. For this purpose two uniformity trials were conducted at the Experimental

farm, faculty of

Agriculture,

Cairo university,

at Fayou.m in two successive growing seasons of 1991/1992 and 1992/1993. Giza 88 variety was used. The actual area of each field trial was divided into 12 strips. Each strip was consists of 72 rows of Means of 2 years from 1990 1991. Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics. A