National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of herbicides on weed control and soil microbial activity. The experiment consisted of 12 treatments laid out RCBD. The treatments consisted of herbicides viz., atrazine, 2,4-D, tembotrione, topramezone and their tank mixtures sprayed at 16 DAS as early post emergent herbicides, they were checked against recommended weed management practice- atrazine 1.25 kg ha-1 (PRE) + 1HW + 1IC, sequential application-atrazine (PRE) fb 2,4-D,Weed free and weedy check. The results indicated that significantly lower weed density (7.67 per 0.5 m2), Weed index (7.07 %) was observed with application of topramezone + 2,4-D next to recommended weed management practices. The next best treatment was tembotrione + 2,4-D. The mixtures recorded broad spectrum weed control than sole application of herbicides. Higher biological activity with respect to dehydrogenase activity (8.70 μg TPF g-1 soil day-1) was observed in topramezone + 2,4-D. Higher grain yield (5582 kg ha-1) and net returns (53769 ₹ ha-1) was recorded in topramezone + 2,4-D next to recommended weed management practice. However weedy check was inferior to all other treatments.
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