Vol. 11, Issue 11 (2022)

A field experiment was conducted at the Instructional Farm, DKS CARS Bhatapara, during Kharif season 2021, to study the ‘‘Effect of nutrient and weed management practices on scented rice (Oryza sativa L.) in Vertisols of Chhattisgarh plain’’. The Experiment was laid out in Split Plot Design (SPD) with three replications. Treatment nutrient management practices was taken as main plot and weed management practices in sub plot. The experiment comprised three different nutrient management practices viz. N1 – 100% Organic, N2 – 100% Inorganic (RDF), N3 - 50% Organic + 50% Inorganic and four different weed management practices viz. W0 – Weedy check, W1 – Weed free check, W2 -Two hand weeding, W3 – Conoweeder + One hand weeding was conducted in scented rice in Vertisols of Chhattisgarh plain. The result revealed that nutrient management N2 – 100% Inorganic (RDF) produced significantly higher growth parameters, yield attributing characters, yield, gross return, net return and B:C ratio as compared to all other nutrient management practices. W1 – Weed free check was recorded significant higher growth parameters, yield attributing characters and yield, gross return, net return and B:C ratio as compared to all other weed management practices. The interaction between nutrient and weed management practices revealed that nutrient management practice N2 – 100% Inorganic (RDF) with weed management practice W1 – Weed free check was produce significant higher seed yield, stover yield, gross return, net return and B:C ratio as compared to all other treatment combination on scented rice in Vertisols of Chhattisgarh plain.