Production constraints analysis of kharif French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in vertisols

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during kharif season of 2018 - 2019 at Experimental farm, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Latur (MS) to study the effect of production constraints on growth and yield of French bean. The results indicated that adoption of full package of practices (fertilizer + weeding + insect pest management) resulted in significantly higher seed yield (1111 kg ha-1). Among the various single factor production constraints fertilizer application was found to be most crucial factor caused yield losses up to 34%followed by insect pest management (24%) and weeding (13%). Regarding the combination of two factor production constraints the treatment where fertilizer application and weeding was not done resulted in reduction in French bean yield by 53% as compared to full package of practices and found to be as a major resource constraints in French bean production, followed by combined constraint weeding + insect pest management and fertilizer+ insect pest management which caused yield losses upto 52% and 45%, respectively.