Vol. 5 (3) : May-June 2014 issue
Green Farming Vol. 5 (3) : 483-485 ; May-June, 2014
Weed control efficiency and economics of non-chemical weed management practices in transplanted organic finger millet
BASAVARAJ PATILa1*, V.C. REDDYb2, MALLESHAa3 and GURURAJ KOMBALIa4
aDepartment of Agronomy, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore - 560 065
bMain Research Station, Univ. of Agric. Sciences, Hebbal, Bangalore - 560 024 (Karnataka)
Designation : 1,3,4Ph.D. Scholar *(bspatil4504@gmail.com), 2Professor
Subject : Agronomy and Crop Production
Paper No. : P-1154
Total Pages : 3
Received : 10 October 2013
Revised accepted : 14 March 2014
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Citation :
BASAVARAJ PATIL, V.C. REDDY, MALLESHA and GURURAJ KOMBALI. 2014. Weed control efficiency and economics of non-chemical weed management practices in transplanted organic finger millet. Green Farming Vol. 5 (3) : 483-485 ; May-June, 2014
ABSTRACT
A field experiment was conducted to study the efficacy and economics of non-chemical weed management practices in organic finger millet during kharif 2012 at Main Research Station, University of Agricultural Sciences, Hebbal, Bengaluru, Among the treatments tried to manage weeds, hand weeding twice produced the highest grain yield (5460 kg/ha) and was on par with stale seedbed combined with inter cultivation twice (5365 kg/ha) as a result of weed control efficiency (93.2 % and 91.6 %, respectively). Unweeded check resulted in yield reduction of 50%. The stale seedbed technique with inter cultivation twice at 20 and 35 DAP followed by hand weeding twice at 20 and 30 DAP recorded the highest net return and B:C ratio (` 56,939 and 56,545/ha and 2.61, and 2.56, respectively).
Key words :
Economics, Finger millet, Inter cultivation, Organic mulching, Stale seedbed, Weed control efficiency.
