EFFECT OF TILLAGE PRACTICES ON GROWTH, YIELD ATTRIBUTES AND YIELD PERFORMANCE OF BARLEY VARIETIES (Hordeum vulgare L.)

POONAM¹, S. KUMAR², B. SINGH³*, A.K. DHAKA^4
1Department of Agronomy, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125004, Haryana, India
²Department of Agronomy, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125004, Haryana, India
³Department of Agronomy, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125004, Haryana, India
⁴Department of Agronomy, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125004, Haryana, India
* Corresponding Author : bsdahiya@gmail.com

Received : 01-07-2020     Accepted : 13-07-2020     Published : 15-07-2020
Volume : 12     Issue : 13       Pages : 10035 - 10037
Int J Agr Sci 12.13 (2020):10035-10037

Keywords : Barley, Tillage practice, Genotypes
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Agronomy, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125004, Haryana, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The field experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2017-18 at Genetics and Plant Breeding Research Area of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, which is located at 29°09’N latitude and 75°46’E longitude in western Haryana with an elevation of 215 m above mean sea level. The experiment was laid out in split plot design with three replications containing three tillage practices viz. conventional tillage, zero tillage and zero tillage + residue @ 6 ton/ha (pearlmillet straw) as main plot treatments and five barley varieties viz. BH 902, BH 946, RD 2552, DWRB 101 and DWRUB 52 as sub plot treatments. The different tillage practices failed to produce significant variation on plant height, dry matter accumulation and tillers irrespective of growth stages of barley. Two rowed barley varieties (DWRB 101 and DWRUB 52) have higher number of tillers as compared to six rowed barley varieties. The different tillage practices failed to produce significant variation on yield attributes i.e. spike number, spike length, grains per spike and 1000 grain weight of barley. BH 946 being at par with RD 2552 produced significantly higher grain yield than BH 902, DWRB 101 and DWRUB 52.

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