BIOINFOLET - A Quarterly Journal of Life Sciences
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  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 2a

Weed control study in kharif pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br. emend. and stuntz]

  • Author:
  • S. D. Munde, J. C. Patel, Shaukat Ali, V. D. Aghav
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 464 to 468

*AICRP on Integrated Farming Systems, S.D.A.U., Sardarkrushinagar, Gujarat-385 506 (India)

**Agriculture superintendent, Directorate of Sorghum Research, Hyderabad (India)

Department of Agronomy, C. P. College of Agriculture, S.D.A.U., Sardarkrushinagar

Online published on 6 May, 2013.

Abstract

Hand weeding (HW) + Interculturing (IC) at 35 DAS was found most effective in reducing weed population and resulted into higher Weed control efficiency (WCE) less dry weight of weeds as well as lowest Weed Index (WI), and it was closely followed by pre-emergence application of atrazine, but its higher doses (0.75 and 1.0 kg/ha) caused toxic effect on pearl millet at seedling stage. HW + IC at 35 DAS followed by application of atrazine at 0.50 kg/ha as pre-emergence gave effective weed control and resulted in more grain yield.

Keywords

Pearl millet, Atrazine, 2,4-D,HW & IC, Grain yield, WI, WCE, PE