Effect of Crop Geometry and Age of Seedlings on Growth Characters, Weed Density and Yield of Finger Millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] Anitha D.*, Nagavani A. V., Chandrika V. Department of Agronomy, S.V. Agricultural College, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Tirupati-517502, Andhra Pradesh *email: anitha.mscagro@gmail.com
Online published on 15 December, 2016. Abstract The results of the experiment conducted during rabi, 2014–15 at S.V. Agricultural College Farm, Tirupati with ten treatments revealed that T1i.e, ANGRAU package (Transplanting of 25 days old seedlings at 15 cm × 10 cm @ 2–3 seedlings hill−1) recorded higher stature of growth, leaf area index, dry matter production. Days to 50% flowering was the minimum with T2 (Transplanting of 12 days old seedlings at 20 cm × 20 cm with single seedling hill−1) while delayed flowering was observed with T1i.e, ANGRAU package (Transplanting of 25 days old seedlings at 15 cm × 10 cm @ 2–3 seedlings hill−1). Plant spacing of 20 cm × 20 cm with 15 days old seedlings with single seedlings hill−1(T5) markelyimproved the yield, theywere found to be at their lower with T10 (Transplanting of 18 days old seedlings at 30 cm × 30 cm with single seedling hill−1). Different crop geometry practices and age of seedling did not influence the weed density and weed dry weight at 20, 40 DAT. Top Keywords Crop geometry, Age of seedlings, Growth characters, Weed density, Yield. Top |