THE STUDY OF CHICKPEA VARIETIES IN THE CONDITIONS OF STEPPE CRIMEA

The use of highly productive varieties, adapted to the local soil-climatic conditions takes an essential place in the complex of measures on crop productivity increase. At present a large number of chickpea varieties have been developed. All of them have different morphologic traits, biologic properties and various reactions to the growing conditions in the Crimea. Thus, it’s necessary to study adaptive properties of the varieties in the conditions of steppe Crimea for the further recommendation for their production. For some years we studied the chickpea varieties in the conditions of steppe Crimea. These are the varieties of Selection-genetic Institute (Odessa), of Institute of Agricultural Industry (Lugansk) and Krasnograd Experimental Station of the Grain Institute (Kharkov) and the variety of Israel breeding. According to the researches conducted in 2012-2014, we developed the chickpea varieties with good adaptability to the conditions of steppe Crimea and they can be recommended for a broad use in production of this territory. The experiments with different chickpea varieties in the conditions of steppe Crimea have shown, that the variety ‘Aleksandrit’ (with the average productivity of 1.35 t/ha) is the most productive variety among red-grain varieties (type Desi, variety transcaucasio-bruneo-violaceum). The variety ‘Dobrobut’ (with the average productivity of 1.46 t/ha) is the most productive variety among middle-grain varieties (type Kabuli, variety bogemico-allutaceum). The variety ‘Budzhak’ (with the average productivity of 1.26 t/ha) is the most productive variety among large-grain varieties (type Kabuli, variety turcico-carneum)