Trends in Biosciences

A field experiment was conducted at Agricultural Research Station, Kota, Rajasthan to evaluate the performance of zerotill drill and to find out optimal irrigation schedule for wheat crop sown after paddy harvesting during two consecutive kharif seasons 2007 and 2008. The treatments includes were three methods of sowing viz., pre sowing irrigation, field preparation and sowing with conventional seed cum fertilizer drill. (ii) Field preparation, without pre sowing irrigation and sowing with conventional seed cum fertilizer drill and (iii) direct sowing with Zero till drill in Main plot at three irrigation regimes i.e. IW/CPE=1.0,IW/CPE=1.2 and irrigation at CRI, Latetillering, flowering and dough stage.