One year field experiment on summer maize was carried out at research farm of IGKV, Raipur during the year 2015, with two main treatments of conservation i.e. paddy straw mulch and without mulch and five sub-treatments. These treatments were replicated three times. Split plot design was adopted by considering the moisture conservation as main plot and system of furrow irrigation as subplot with plot size of 5 x 5 m2.
The result of analysis of variance for different treatments showed that there was significant difference among all the treatments. The interaction effect of paddy straw mulch with application of water in paired row performed batter as significant higher yield (44.16 q/ha) of maize was recorded followed by paddy straw mulch with application of water in alternate row (41.13 q/ha), however, highest water use efficiency was found in case of paddy straw mulch with application of water in alternate rows (8.50 kg/ ha-mm) followed by paddy straw mulch with application of water in paired row (8.45 kg/ha-mm) and the result of cob diameter, cob length and grain weight per cob showed significant difference during both the year. Cumulative yield and growth parameters data revealed that there was significant reduction in the yield of maize after application of water in reverse skipped pair row. On the basis of results it can be conducted that the water requirement of summer maize was about 44.1 cm which can be full fill with eight numbers of irrigations. The depth of irrigation in each irrigation can be about 40 mm.