COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PRODUCTIVITY OF SUMMER PULSE CROPS ON SALINE SOILS OF UZBEKISTAN

A field experiment on comparative study of the three summer legumes (mungbean, Vigna radiate [L.]) Wilcz.; cowpea, Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp., and soybean, Glycine max [L.] Merr.) growth, development and grain yield was carried out from 2013 to 2015 on saline soil at Jizzakh Experiment Research Station of the Cotton Breeding, Seed Production and Agro-Technologies Research Institute, Uzbekistan. Irrigated mungbean and cowpea grain yields on slightly saline soil were ranging from 1.68 to 1.82 Mg ha-1 and 1.28 to 1.39 Mg ha-1 respectively while soybean yield was higher and ranged from 2.83 to 3.16 Mg ha-1 during the study years.