Vol. 10, Issue 9 (2021)

Author(s):
AP Deshmukh, SB Kharbade and R Balasubramanian

Abstract:
An agro-meteorological investigation was undertaken on “Crop weather pest relationship and validation of DSSAT model for rice varieties under different transplanting dates’’ during kharif, 2016 and 2017 at Agricultural Research Station Farm, Vadgaon Maval, Dist. Pune, under Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, for the purpose to evaluate the heat efficiency of rice crop. An experiment was laid out in split plot design with three replications. The treatment comprised of four sowing dates viz., S_1: 26^th MW (25 June-1 July), S_2: 28^th MW (9 July-15 July), S­_3: 30 MW (23 July-29 July) and S_4: 32^nd MW (06 August -12 August) as main plot treatments and four varieties viz., V₁: VDN-99-29 (Phule samruddhi), V_2: VDN-3-51-18 (Indrayani), V_3: IET-13549 (Bhogavati) and V_4: RDN-99-1 (Phule Radha) as sub plot treatments.