Vol. 11, Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Rohit Gupta, AS Yadav, Ram Niwas and Ravindra Sachan

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted at an Agricultural Farm Rama University, Kanpur (U.P) India. The Central Plain zone of Uttar Pradesh, during Rabi season of 2020-21. The experiment comprised of 12 treatment combinations in factorial randomized block design with three replications consisted of four wheat cultivars viz. V₁: NW-5054, V₂: NW-4018, V₃: K-1006 and V₄: K-8804 and three sowing methods viz. M₁: Broadcasting, M₂: Line Sowing and M₃: Raised Bed methods. On the basis of the results emanated from present investigation, it could be concluded that variety K-1004 sowing by raised bed method have higher growth parameter i.e. plant height & dry matter accumulation and yield attributes i.e. length of spike, number of spike, number of grains per spike and test weight. Results also showed that variety K-1004 sowing by raised bed method significantly enhanced productivity parameters i.e. grain yield, straw yield. Higher values of economics viz., gross return (Rs. 11390 ha^-1), net return (Rs. 67014 ha^-1) and B:C ratio (1.51) in wheat was observed in the combination of variety K-1004 sowing by raised bed method.