author(s)
CH Shankar, G Maruthi Ram and U Mutyalu

abstract
A field experiment on “Effect of Organic Manures and Plant Extracts on growth and yield of Chickpea, Cicer arietinum L.” was carried out at Limboor village of Nizamabad District, Telangana State. The highest plant height 60.493 cm was observed in T₁-Vermicompost (10 t/ha) + NSKE (5%) followed by T₆ - Poultry manure (5 t/ha) + chilli garlic extract (100 gm/lit) with 57.963 which was on par with T₂ -Vermicompost (10 t/ha) + chilli garlic extract (100 gm/lit), T₃ -Vermicompost (10 t/ha) + tobacco leaf decotion (5% W/v), T₄ -Vermicompost (10 t/ha) + pongamia seed extract (5% W/v), T₅ - Poultry manure (5 t/ha) + NSKE (5%). The more branches per plant 7.567 no. was recorded in T_1, which was on par with T₈ - Poultry manure (5 t/ha) + pongamia seed extract (5% W/v) with 7.620 no. followed by T₅ - Poultry manure (5 t/ha) + NSKE (5%). T₁-Vermicompost (10 t/ha) + NSKE (5%) recorded the highest i.e. 69.94 no. of pods per plant with 1569.45 kg/ha grain yield and it was significantly different from other treatments followed by T₅ - Poultry manure (5 t/ha) + NSKE (5%).