author(s)
RN Nishad, RB Singh, Suraj Kumar and Pawan Singh

abstract
Chickpea, Cicer arietinum (L.) is one of the most important Rabi season food legume pulse crop in India. Due to lack of awareness, the farmer’s do not distinguish the seed grain and hence the quality of farmers saved seed remains below standard. One hundred eight farmers’ saved seed samples were randomly collected from different villages of six districts in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Ninety one percent chickpea seed samples were infested bruchid, C. chinensis. The maximum seed moisture content (11.83%) was recorded in the samples of Bahraich district and minimum seed moisture content (10.86%) in samples of Amethi district. The maximum insect infestation (1.01 %) was recorded in samples of district Bahraich and the minimum (0.78 %) sample was infested in Amethi district. The maximum germination (81.94 %) was noticed in seed sample of Amethi district and the minimum (77.27 %) in sample of Bahraich district. However, the maximum 1423.42 and minimum 1329.9 seed vigour index were observed in Amethi and Basti seed samples of chickpea, respectively. The keeping above in view, overall average performance of seed samples collected different villages of six districts were 11.17 % seed moisture content, 0.88 % seed damaged, 75.06 % seed germination and 1389.6 seed vigour index.