This research aims to identify the appropriate sowing period and most yield for varieties of chickpea, which is one of the rare plants that can be an alternative for grain farming and of which there no alternative in Mediterranean climate regions as well as more arid regions. The experiment was conducted during 2014-2016, involving five different chickpea varieties along with five different sowing periods and the yield and base characteristics were analysed. The study focused on yield elements, such as grain yield, nodule number, hydration capacity and C/N rates in the soil. The Sezenbey variety gave the highest yield both for normal years (10 th December sowing) and arid years (30 th October sowing) with 4050 kg/ha and 610 kg/ha, respectively. On the other hand, the Hasanbey variety had the lowest yield of 350 kg/ha and 110 kg/ha, respectively, in both years when sown on 20 th January.

SUMMARYThis research was carried out on 6 barley varieties (two-rowed; Otis, Nure, Pewter Fouga, Prestige and six rowed; Athenais) in a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications in 2008-2009 growing season in Cyprus; Turkmenkoy, Kumkoy, Tepebas and Haspolat locations. It was determined that the effects of genotype, environment and genotype x environment interaction were significant at 1% level of probability for grain yield. Grain yield varied from 61.0 -410.5 kg/da. Kumkoy location had the highest grain yield (303.7 kg/da) while Turkmenkoy location had the lowest grain yield (118.3 kg/da). While, cultivars Nure and Pewter had the highest yield (250.0 and 261.4 kg/da), cultivars Fouga and Prestige had the lowest grain yield (156.3 and 158.0 kg/da) for all environments. While the highest grain yield is found in Kumkoy location with Nure (410 kg/da) and Pewter (400 kg/da), Turkmenkoy location has the lowest grain yield with Fouga (61 kg/da) variety.