Vol. 11, Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Poonam Sidar, Narendra Kumar, Ashwani Kumar Thakur, Tejpal Chandrakar and Devendra Pratap Singh

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted at the Research cum Instructional Farm, Shaheed Gundadhoor College of Agriculture and Research Station, Jagdalpur, Bastar (C.G.) during Kharif season 2021 to study the Effect of different age of seedlings and varieties on growth and yield of Aman rice (Oryza sativa L.). The result revealed that M1 produced significantly taller plant, more number of tillers hill-1, higher dry matter accumulation, and highest grain yield and test weight than the M2 and M3. Plant height, number of tillers hill^-1, Dry matter accumulation, panicle length, total number of grains panicle-1, test weight, grain yield, straw yield and harvest index was recorded significantly higher in rice varieties V3.