Chickpea and lentil phenology and grain yield response to irrigation – Leeton 2019

Abstract

Key findings • Chickpea and lentil produced high grain yield on irrigated raised beds at Leeton in 2019. • CICA1521 was the highest yielding chickpea variety with a grain yield of 3.55 t/ha. • PBA Bolt[PBR], PBA Ace[PBR] and PBA Hallmark[PBR] were the highest yielding lentil varieties, all achieving over 2.50 t/ha. • Disease pressure and waterlogging were not observed in these experiments, a result of dry seasonal conditions and raised beds for furrow irrigation. • There were difficulties in machine harvesting lentil on raised beds with more than 1.00 t/ha grain losses compared with hand harvesting.