EFFECT OF SPACING AND WEED MANAGEMENT ON GROWTH AND YIELD ATTRIBUTES OF SUMMER MOTH BEAN (VIGNA ACONITIFOLIA)

B.J. PATEL¹*, H.H. PATEL², S.D. PATEL^3
1Department of Agronomy, N.M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India
²Department of Agronomy, N.M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India
³Department of Agronomy, N.M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India
* Corresponding Author : bhavini081194@gmail.com

Received : 14-08-2019     Accepted : 13-09-2019     Published : 15-09-2019
Volume : 11     Issue : 17       Pages : 8947 - 8950
Int J Agr Sci 11.17 (2019):8947-8950

Keywords : Moth bean, Spacing, Weed management and yield
Academic Editor : Seyyed Fazel Fazeli Kakhki
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Agronomy, N.M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

A field experiment was conducted at the College Farm, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari to study during summer 2017. Total eighteen treatment combinations consisting of three row spacing viz., S1: 45 cm between two rows, S2: 60 cm between two rows and S3: 90 cm between two rows and six weed management practices viz., W1: Pendimethalin 750 g/ha as PE, W2: Imazethapyr 75 g/ha as PoE, W3: Quizalofop-p-ethyl 100 g/ha as PoE, W4: One hand weeding at 20 DAS, W5: weed free (two hand weeding 20 and 40 DAS) and W6: unweeded control were evaluated for moth bean crop. Based on field experimentation, it was found that various row spacing and weed management had significant effect on growth and yield attributing characters like, plant height, number of branches per plant, dry matter production per plant and number of pods per plant, which caused significant effect on seed and stover yields of moth bean crop. In case of row spacing, treatment S3 was found superior than other spacing, but the narrow row spacing S1 of summer moth bean recorded significantly higher seed and stover yield of moth bean which was at par with treatment S2. In case of weed management, treatment W5 was found superior than rest of the treatments, but remained at par with treatment W1.

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