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 |
An on –farm trial was conducted on various farmers field in different villages of Araria district during financial year 2016-17. This trail was conducted to overcome weed infestation during cultivation of chilli in farmers field. It leads to reduction in yield; quality of produce is inferior as compared to better quality produce, increased the cost of cultivation due to manual hand weeding by laborers and reduced the benefit cost ratio. The trial was conducted in randomized block design with three treatments and ten replications. The different treatments are Technology option -1 is farmers practice, Technology option-2 is use of paddy straw as mulch and Technology option-3 is use of bicolor silver/black plastic 25 micron thickness as mulch material. We got the following results as maximum plant height recorded was 78.10cm in case of use of bicolor plastic mulch as compared to 72.90 cm in case of paddy straw as mulch material and 66.10 cm in case of control. The Highest average number of fruits per plant was 175.40 in case of bicolor plastic mulch as compared to 163 fruits per plant in case of paddy straw mulch and 150.40 in case of control. The maximum average weight of fruit was 4.53gm, fruit yield per plant was 743.84 gm and yield 89.66 quintal per hectare is recorded in case of bicolor plastic mulch as compared to 4.42gm per fruit, 662.57 gm/plant and 84.24 quintal per hectare was found in case of paddy straw mulch and 3.61gm per fruit, 579.14 gm per plant and 75.18 quintal per hectare was recorded in case of control.
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