Fodder Quality and Yields of Mung Bean as Influenced by Different Weed Management Practices

A field experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design consisted of eight treatments with three replication to find out suitable weed management in summer mung bean (Vigna radiata) under zero tillage condition during summer season of 2019-20 under irrigated condition at ICAR-NDRI, Karnal, Haryana. To evaluate the quality of fodder in terms of, organic matter, total ash, crude protein, ether extract, neutral detergent fiber, acid detergent fiber, acid detergent lignin. The result showed that weed free (T₂) plots recorded higher (P<0.05) green and dry fodder yield, followed by Shaked (Propaquizafop + Imezathyper) (T₆) and Pendimethalin fb one HW at 20 days after showing (T₄), T₂, T₆ and T₄ recorded higher green fodder yield by 59.32, 40.12 and 39.86% over weedy check (T₁). Among weed control treatments, T₄ recorded significantly higher crude protein, ether extract and dry matter content was at par on T₆ and significantly (P<0.05) superior over T₁ Same trends were also observed in CP, EE and dry matter yield (q/ha). The treatments T₄ and T₆ also enhanced fodder quality by reducing neutral detergent fiber, acid detergent fiber and acid detergent lignin content over weedy check. Thus, application of Shaked (Propaquizafop + Imezathyper) at2 l/ha at 20 days post-sowing would increase yield and quality of summer mung bean fodder under zero tillage condition.