*(1) Abd AL-Hakeem AL-kasha

*(1)Department of Agronomy, faculty of a(1) Deir Ezzor, Syria.

(*Corresponding author:Abd AL-Hakeem AL-kasham .Email: dr.akasham @gmail.com)

Received:17-1-2020 Accepted:12-3-2020

Abstract

The study was conducted at AL-Husseinia village, north Deir Ezzor governorate, during 2018/2019 growing season, to determining the effect of different levels of organic fertilizer on growth and yield of chickpea. Four rates of organic sheep manure (0,5,15 and 25) ton/ha were used. Results showed that organic manure has accelerated seedlings emergence and plants flowering, where the least period to germination and flowering was at the rates of adding 15 and 25 ton/ha, without significance differences between these rates. The highest values of plant height and number of main branches/plants were achieved when adding organic fertilizer at rates of 15 and 25 ton/ha, and all treatments of organic fertilizer surpassed significantly the control treatment (0 ton/ha). The rate 15 ton/ha gave the highest values of number of pods/plant and 100- seed weight, followed by the rates 5 and 25 ton/ha organic fertilizer, without significance differences between the rates 5 and 25 ton/ha. All fertilization rates significantly surpassed the control treatment in plant dry weight at harvest, and the highest values of this trait were in fertilization rates of (15 and 25) ton/ha,

which gave statistically equal values for plant dry weight. Plants that grown at the addition rate of 15 ton/ha of organic sheep manure gave the highest seed yield and harvest index, (2817 kg/ha and 43.87%), respectively.

Keywords: Chickpea, Organic fertilizer, Growth traits, Yield traits.

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