Weed management in pigeonpea based intercropping systems

ISBN-13: 9783659928147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Chunni Lal Rai; Raghuraj Kishor Tiwari; Pawan Sirothia

Opis

The book has been written with the objective to identify most profitable pigeonpea based inter-cropping system and most efficient weed management practice for the inter-cropping system under rainfed condition. The book is based on the data obtained from two years long field experiment carried out with split plot design. The experiment comprised three inter-cropping systems (pigeonpea sole, pigeonpea + greengram and pigeonpea + blackgram) as main plot treatment and six weed management practices(pre and post-emergence herbicides and their combinations) as sub plot treatment. Among weed management practices pre- emergence application of pendimethalin @ 1.0 kg a.i./ha followed by post- emergence imazethapyr @ 0.1 kg a.i./ha proved as the best weed management practice for pigeonpea based inter-cropping systems. While, pigeonpea + blackgram inter-cropping system found as the most profitable system in terms of pigeonpea equivalent yield which recorded 1363 kg/ha pigeonpea equivalent yield as compared to 718 and 1226 kg/ha recorded by pigeonpea sole and pigeonpea + greengram, respectively.

O autorze

Dr. Chunni Lal Rai received his B.sc. (Ag.) and M.sc. (Ag.) degree from J.N.K.V.V., Jabalpur, M.P., India and Ph.D. from MGCGVV, Chitrakoot, MP, India. His area of specialization is Agronomy. He has published many research papers in reputed national and international research journals. He is author of the book "Botany of Field Crops".