GROWTH, YIELD, AND WATER USE EFFICIENCY OF GREEN GRAM (VIGNA RADIATA L.) AS INFLUENCED BY IRRIGATION SCHEDULING AND LAND CONFIGURATIONK. Sainath1, Barkha, K. Bokado and K. Narender RaoAbstract A field experiment was conducted at experimental area, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University during the kharif season of 2022 to evaluate the growth and productivity of green gram (Vigna radiata L.) as influenced by irrigation scheduling and land configuration. The experiment was laid out in split plot design replicated four times with 2 main plots (L1: flat-bed and L2: raised bed) and 4 sub-plots (I1: irrigation at preflowering stage; I2: irrigation at seedling + pre-flowering stage; I3: irrigation at pre-flowering stage + pod formation stage; I4: irrigation at seedling stage + irrigation at pre-flowering stage+ irrigation at pod formation stage). The results indicated that when given three irrigations under raised bed had significantly better effect on growth and yield of green gram (Vigna radiata L.). The maximum plant height (67.23 cm), number of branches (14.53), dry matter accumulation (17.75g) at harvest, pods/plant (46.58), seed yield (15.25q ha-1), stover yield (29.55q ha-1) and water use efficiency (7.63kg/ha-mm) were recorded higher under treatment combination of L2I4 (raised bed + irrigation at seedling, irrigation at pre-flowering and irrigation at pod formation stage) than rest of other treatments. |