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Vol. 8 (3) : May-June 2017 issue
Green Farming Vol. 8 (3) : 719-723 ; May-June, 2017
Assessment of direct sowing of paddy with drum seeders under different weed control practices in paddy field
R. JAYA PRAKASHa1*, B. ASHWIN KUMARb2, P. RAGHU RAMI REDDYc3 and G. ARAVIND REDDYb4
aDepartment of Farm Machinery and Power, College of Agril. Engg., ANGRAU, Bapatla - 522 101 (Andhra Pradesh)
bFarm Implements and Machinery Scheme, Department of Process and Food Engineering , PJTSAU, Rajendra Nagar - 500 030, Hyderabad (Telangana),
cDepartment of Agronomy, Regional Agricultural Research Station, PJTSAU, Warangal - 506 007 (Telangana)
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1Ph.D. Scholar *(jayacae08@gmail.com), 2Res. Associate, 3Associate Director of Research, 4Principal Scientist and Head
Subject : Agriculture Engineering, Farm Machinery, Energy & Power and Process Engineering
Paper No. : P-6009
Total Pages : 5
Received : 07 October 2016
Revised accepted : 25 February 2017
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R. JAYA PRAKASH, B. ASHWIN KUMAR, P. RAGHU RAMI REDDY and G. ARAVIND REDDY. 2017. Assessment of direct sowing of paddy with drum seeders under different weed control practices in paddy field. Green Farming Vol. 8 (3) : 719-723 ; May-June, 2017

ABSTRACT
An experiment was laid out in strip plot design with three replications to evaluate the assessment of direct sowing of paddy with different spaced drum seeders under different weed control practices in paddy field. The minimum seed rate (33.33 kg/ha) was recorded with 30 cm spacing drum seeder and it was less over 20cm spacing (49.13 kg/ha) and 25 cm spacing (37.98 kg/ha). The effective field capacity varied from 0.07 ha/h (for 25 cm spacing drum seeder) to 0.09 ha/h (for 20 cm spacing drum seeder) whereas the higher field efficiency (77.41%) was recorded in 25 cm drum seeder. The highest field capacity was found to be (0.09, 0.08 and 0.06 ha /h for 30, 25 and 20 cm row spacings respectively) with the field efficiency of (73.69,70.19 and 70.98 per cent at an average speed of 2.05,2.20 and 2.09 kmph for 30, 25 and 20 cm row spacings respectively) for power weeder. The highest weeding efficiency was found to be (100 per cent with the zero per cent plant damage for all 20, 25 and 30 cm row spacings) for manual weeding. The plant damage was observed only in 20 cm row spacing due to congested row spacing while operation for mechanical weeders (power weeder and cono weeders). Significantly higher grain yield (5949 kg/ha) were realized when manual weeding was employed as weed management option, however this was at par with cono weeding (5645 kg/ha) and significantly superior over weeding with power weeders (5416 kg/ha) and herbicides (5442 kg/ha).
Key words :
Direct sowing, Drum seeder, Paddy, Spacing, Weed control practices.