Fodder maize, Herbicides, Integrated weed management, Pre-emergence

A field experiment was conducted at Research Farm,  JNKVV, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh during Kharif  2012 to see the effect of integrated weed management on growth, development and seed yield of fodder maize. The lowest  weed density and weed biomass was recorded under weed free treatment closely followed by atrazine 1.0 kg/ha + hand weeding. All the treated plots receiving either manual weeding or herbicidal treatments and integration with hand weeding produced higher yield over weedy check plots. The maximum seed and stover yields were noted in hand weeding at 20 and 40 DAS followed by atrazine 1.0 kg/ha + hand weed at 30 DAS. The B: C ratio (1.71) was higher in the tank mixed application of atrazine 0 .75 kg/ha + alachlor 2.25 kg/ha.