Arti Keshav, Santosh Kumar, Malay Marut Sharma, Sandeep Kumar Singh, Ajay Kumar and Talwinder Singh
Abstract
A field experiment was planned and conducted to study the effect of sowing date and weed management on growth and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) at the Experimental Farm, Mata Gujri College, Fatehgarh Sahib during 2018-19 to 2019-20. The experiment was laid out in split plot design with three replications. Three dates of sowing (D1- 1 November, D2- 20 November and D3- 10 December) was subjected to main plot and five weed management practices (W0- Weedy check, W1- Weedy free, W2- Pendimethalin @ 1 kg/ha fb Clodinafop @ 60 g/ha, W3- Sulfosulfuron @ 25 g/ha + Almix @ 4.0 g/ha, W4-Pendimethalin @ 1 kg/ha fb Carfentrazone @ 20 g/ha) was subjected to sub plot. The sowing date and weed management treatments significantly influenced various growth parameters, yield attributes and yield of wheat. From this experiment it can be concluded that the maximum growth and yield attributes parameters were recorded in D2- 20 November which was at par with D1-1 November and significantly superior over D3- 10 December. However, in weed management practices it was under the W3- sulfosulfuron @ 25 g/ha + almix @ 4.0 g/ha which was at par with W4- pendimethalin @ 1 kg/ha fb carfentrazone @ 20 g/ha and it was significantly superior over the other treatments.