Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
PP Pawar, SG Mehetre, SM Dhadge and NB Tarde

Abstract:
An experiment entitled “Weed management in hybrid pearl millet (Adishakti) under rainfed condition” was conducted during kharif 2020 at Post Graduate Research Farm, Agronomy Section, College of Agriculture, Dhule. Experiment consisted of nine treatments laid out in randomized block design with three replications. Among the chemical weed management treatments, application of pendimethalin @ 750 g ha^-1 PE fb 2,4-D (Na Salt) @ 0.5 kg ha^-1 at 25-30 DAS PoE (T₉) recorded significantly higher all growth parameters and it was found at par with application of pendimethalin @ 750 g ha^-1 PE fb 2,4-D (Dimethyl amine) @ 0.5 kg ha^-1 at 25-30 DAS PoE (T₈). The significant effect on growth character of plant was noticed due to different treatments which resulted in enhance yield contributing characters viz., earhead length plant^-1 (cm), earhead girth plant^-1 (cm), weight of earhead plant^-1 (g), grain weight earhead^-1 (g) and test weight (g). Among the different herbicidal treatments, grain and straw yield was observed better with application of pendimethalin @ 750 g ha^-1 PE fb 2,4-D (Na Salt) @ 0.5 kg ha^-1 at 25-30 DAS PoE (T₉) (2718.73 and 5099.12 kg ha^-1, respectively) and it was found at par with application of pendimethalin @ 750 g ha^-1 PE fb 2,4-D (Dimethyl amine) @ 0.5 kg ha^-1 at 25-30 DAS PoE (T₈) (2548.76 and 4974.99 kg ha^-1, respectively).