The proposed activities under the project were undertaken as planned. More nodulation variants from wilt resistant chickpea lines and from pigeonpea lines were identified with gross variability in nodulation capacity within materials subsequently confirmed. Limited variants used in chickpea-sorghum and pigeonpea-safflower system suggested greater yield of the systems involving high nodulating legumes than those involving low nodulating legumes. Confirmed high and low nodulating/N fixing variants, available in early 1995, were provided to the involved partners. Subsequently the variants developed/confirmed will be provided to them in year 2 of the project. Most of the variants showed expected nodulation capacities at all the testing sites.