Effect of herbicides and cultural practices on growth and yield of Chickpea

The investigation was conducted at the farm of Department of Agronomy, Dr. PDKV Akola, in the season of 2010–2011. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design (R.B.D.) with ten treatments and three replications. There were one cultural treatments of hand weeding and hoeing. These treatments were compared with eight chemical treatments of Imazathapyr, Pendimethalin, and Quizolofop-p-ethyl with their recommended rates and one weedy check. The objective of the study was to study the relative efficacy of herbicides and cultural practices on weed control. Plant phototoxic effect, AGR, RGR, NAR, Grain yield, straw yield and test weight of Gram and to study the effect of herbicides on growth and yield of Gram. Pendimethaline 1 kg ha⁻¹+1H at 40 DAS recorded highest yield in chemical treatment. But cultural weed control treatment 2H at 15 and 40 DAS + HW at 30DAS recorded highest grain yield and B:C ratio.