2.3 Cropping system
This study was conducted with the use of common variety in local market chickpea seed P-362. The pot contained 2kg of sterilised soil, and the field study was conducted on 6ft × 4ft plot in triplicates, the spacing of plantation was done as recommended in local standard agricultural practices. The control (T0) plots contained seeds without microbial inoculant where treatment plot (T1, T2 and T3) contained chickpea seed endophytic bacteria treated seeds (Enterobacter hormaecheiBHUJPCS-15 (T1), Enterobacter cloacae BHUJPCS-21 (T2), combined T3 is consortia of T1 and T2 microbes), each plot contained equal number of germinated chickpea seeds.