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Time and Method of Weed Control in Pearl Millet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Rajinder Singh  and
S. K Yadav
Rajinder Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India
S. K Yadav
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India
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Summary

Field experiments during the rainy seasons (July–October) of 1984 and 1985 at Hisar, India showed that removing weeds in pearl millet from 10 to 60 days after sowing led to fewer weeds at harvest, and significantly higher grain yields were obtained when weeds were removed 20 days after the crop was sown. All the weed control methods tried (hand hoeing, hand wheel hoeing, or application of terbutryne or atrazine) were successful and significantly increased crop growth and grain yield. The maximum grain yield was obtained with atrazine at 0.5 kg ha−1 and the minimum in the unweeded control.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 319 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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