Effect of Different Pre and Post Emergences & Cultural Practice on Nutrient Uptake by Chickpea & Weed and Yield of Chickpea

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during winter season 2010-2011 at farm of Agronomy Department, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, to evaluate the effect of herbicides and cultural practices on nutrient uptake by chickpea and weed. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with three replications and ten different treatments. Results revealed that  the maximum nutrient uptake by chickpea was found in treatment (T₁₀) 2H at 15 and 30 DAS + HW at 40 DAS followed by T₈, T₄, T₉, and T₅ and The lowest uptake of nutrients was found in treatments T₁₀ followed by T₈, which may be due to lowest weed count. In case of yield treatment Pendimethaline 1 kg ha-1+1H at 40 DAS (T₈) recorded highest yield in chemical treatment. But cultural weed control treatment 2H at 15 and 40 DAS + HW at 30DAS recorded highest grain yield and B:C ratio.