A field experiment was conducted during the Rabi season of 2016-17, at the Instructional Farm, Shaheed Gundadhoor College of Agriculture & Research Station, Kumhrawand, Jagdalpur District- Bastar (Chhattisgarh). The soil of experimental site was sandy loam; it was low in organic carbon (0.41%) and available nitrogen (228.90 kg ha-1) and medium in available phosphorus (12.26 kg ha-1) and potassium (286.25 kg ha-1) and acidic in reaction (6.1 pH).The experiment was laid out in spilt plot design with four sowing dates and four varieties of wheat. Four sowing dates viz. 15th November (D1), 30th November (D2), 15th December (D3) and 30th December (D4) were applied in main plot and four varieties viz. GW- 273 (V1), Lok- 1 (V2), Sujata (V3) and Kanchan (V4) in sub-plot and replicated 3 times. The results revealed that sowing on 15th December recorded significantly higher plant height (36.39 cm) at 30 DAS whereas sowing on 30th December recorded higher plant height (90.42 cm) at 60 DAS. Sowing on 15th November recorded significantly higher plant height (103.58 cm) at 90 DAS and (104.05 cm) at harvest. Varieties Sujata recorded significantly higher plant height (34.44 cm) at 30 DAS (92.87 cm) at 60 DAS, (118.26 cm) at 90 DAS and (119.12 cm) at harvest. Sowing on 30th December recorded significantly higher number of tillers m-2 (1000) at 30 DAS, whereas sowing on 30th November recorded significantly higher number of tillers m-2 (742.5). Sowing on 15th November recorded relatively higher number of tillers m-2 (767.5) at 90 DAS and (764.83) at harvest. Varieties Sujata recorded significantly higher number of tillers (951.67), (753.75), (764.92) and (761.50) at 30 DAS, 60 DAS, 90 DAS and at harvest respectively. Sowing on 15th November recorded significantly higher duration for CRI (21.42 day), panicle emergence (62.63 day), 50% flowering (67.58 day), milking (82.67 day) and maturity stage (111.42 day). As compare to sowing on 15th November, duration of wheat crop reduces by 4 day with sown on 30th November, 11 day with sown on 15th December and 19 day with sown on 30th December. Sowing on 15th November recorded significantly higher grain yield (40.50 q ha-1), straw yield (31.98 q ha-1), gross return (Rs. ha-1 61763), net return (Rs. ha-1 35498) and B: C ratio (2.35). Varieties GW-273 recorded significantly higher grain yield (38.70 q ha-1), gross return (Rs. ha-1 59018), net return (Rs. ha-1 32903) and B: C ratio (Rs. 2.26)), whereas Sujata produced significantly higher straw yield (30.42 q ha-1).

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