EFFECT OF TILLAGE AND WEED MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY AND ENERGY ANALYSIS OF LATE- SOWN CHICKPEA

ABHISHEK CHAUHAN¹*, GIRISH JHA², AJAY CHOURASIYA³, AMIT JHA⁴, JITENDRA KUMAR JOSHI^5
1Department of Agronomy, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh
²Department of Agronomy, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh
³Department of Agronomy, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh
⁴Department of Agronomy, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh
⁵Department of Agronomy, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh
* Corresponding Author : abhishekagron15@gmail.com

Received : 22-12-2016     Accepted : 18-01-2017     Published : 30-01-2017
Volume : 9     Issue : 5       Pages : 3779 - 3781
Int J Agr Sci 9.5 (2017):3779-3781

Keywords : Tillage, Weed management, Productivity, Energy Analysis
Academic Editor : Dr Sanbagavalli Subramanian
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author thankful to Department of Agronomy, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

A field experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2013-14 and 2014-15 at the Research Farm, JNKVV, Jabalpur (M.P.) to study tillage and weed management methods on productivity and energy analysis of chickpea. The results revealed that bed planting and conventional tillage resulted in higher growth, yield and yield attributes of chickpea. Both these tillage practices resulted in higher energy output (59317 to 61263 MJ/ha), while lowest (48974 MJ/ha) in case of broadcasting method. Among the herbicidal method weed management, Vellor recorded significantly higher growth, yield and yield-attributes of chickpea in addition to highest energy output (63335 MJ/ha), energy use efficiency (6.18) and energy productivity (0.13). The overall results allude that bed planting with use of Pendimethalin + Imazethapyr herbicide may be adopted to achieve maximum productivity of chickpea.