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K. Charan Teja and B. Duary*. 2018. Weed management and rapeseed mustard productivity in conservation agriculture based rice - yellow mustard - greengram cropping system in lateritic belt of West Bengal . Indian Journal of Weed Science : 50( 4) 340- 344.







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Volume Issue Publication year Page No Type of article
50 4 2018 340-344 Research article
Weed management and rapeseed mustard productivity in conservation agriculture based rice - yellow mustard - greengram cropping system in lateritic belt of West Bengal

K. Charan Teja and B. Duary*

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0974-8164.2018.00073.4

Email: bduary@yahoo.co.in
Address: Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal 731 236

Keywords:

Conservation tillage

Pendimethalin

Weed management

Yellow mustard 

Zero tillage



Abstract:

A field experiment was conducted during 2015-16 and 2016-17 at Agriculture Farm, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal to study the effect of tillage and weed management practices on weed growth and productivity of yellow mustard in direct-seeded rice - yellow mustard - greengram cropping system. The experiment was laid out in a strip plot design with four horizontal tillage strips and three vertical weed management strips replicated thrice. Results revealed that conservational tillage (zero tillage + residue) along with recommended herbicide (RH) (pendimethalin at 0.75 kg/ha) + one hand weeding (HW) recorded the lower values of total weed density (6.20 and 6.43 no/m2) and dry weight (1.22 and 1.42 g/m2) and higher values of seed yield (1.20 and 1.46 t/ha) in first and second year, respectively. In second year, conservational tillage even with RH alone registered at par values of total weed density and dry weight with conventional tillage + RH + 1 HW and it also recorded 10.2% higher seed yield than conventional tillage + RH + 1 HW. Thus, conservation tillage along with recommended herbicide alone in yellow mustard appeared to be a promising technique with respect to weed suppression and productivity of yellow mustard in conservation agriculture based rice-mustard sarson-greengram cropping system.

 





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