National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The experiment was conducted with five treatments and four replications in Randomized Block Design (RBD) during Kharif season of 2016-17 at Agronomy Research Farm, N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya (U.P.). Five treatments are selected of which two treatments were supplied with 5 t/ha and 10 t/ha paddy straw mulch and other three non-mulched viz. four hand weedings alone, herbicide (metribuzin P.E.) with two hand weedings and weedy check. Among all the five treatments maximum plant height (107.2 cm), number of leaves (9.0), number of tillers (4.71), root length (35.1cm), root weight (25.2 g), root volume (28.4 cm3), number of primary, secondary and tertiary rhizomes (6.6, 15.8 and 5.1 respectively), weight of mother, primary, secondary, tertiary rhizomes(43.2g, 174.2g, 270.1g, 14.3g respectively) and fresh rhizome yield (32.9 t/ha) observed in the treatment applying paddy straw mulch @ 10 t/ha followed by paddy straw mulch @ 5 t/ha.
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