Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2014) 3(1): 666-669 666 Original Research Article A new planting technique of Arhar (Cajnus cajan) for higher production under rain-fed condition Adikant Pradhan * , A.Thakur, A.Sao and D.P.Patel S.G. College of Agriculture and Research Station, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh 494005, India *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Introduction India sharing about 25 % (22.43 million ha) of pulse area in the world s pulse production out of 33.6 % (13.1 million tones) of world s pulse basket. Among the 70% of global share of chickpea and pigeon pea production goes to India. Arhar is an important pulse among Indian consumers, who like more as Dal to arhar but the limiting the production of pulse because of plant establishment method and other concerned technologies that are not applied thoroughly. Pigeon pea is sensitive crop against adverse climatic condition comes after germination and during vegetative stages which slash the production of arhar again. The gap between the production and consumption is really big question for our country and also importing pulse from other countries. The estimated requirement of pulses 27.00million tones by 2015 AD is challenge. These all aspect of production constraints in country, it needs boosting up the pulse production through new innovative techniques to come the real compensative figure of production. In kharif season, those regions receive higher rainfall in initial month of monsoon onset. It is very difficult to manage the waterlogged condition for seeding of Arhar crop, because almost sown crop become softy due to high marshy condition of beds. Again farmers can not go for resowing the arhar due to high prices, time almost passes for resowing. These all factors emphasized to conduct the experiment. ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 3 Number 1 (2014) pp. 666-669 http://www.ijcmas.com Keywords Arhar; Dal; Doni; Planting methods; Scooping etc. Arhar is an important pulse among Indian consumers, who like more as Dal to arhar but the limiting the production of pulse because of plant establishment method and other concerned technologies that are not applied thoroughly. Pigeon pea is sensitive crop against adverse climatic condition comes after germination and during vegetative stages which slash the production of arhar again. The experiment was laid out at S.G. CARS, Jagdalpur in Randomized Block Design with four replications during kharif 2006 and 2007. The treatment applied as T 2 - Doni + scooping gave highest yield due to appropriate media addition to seeding and planted as such after hardening.