Influence of tillage and weed management methods on chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). I. Yield and yield components.

Emenky, Fathi A.O. and Khalaf, A.S. and Salim, N.M. (2010) Influence of tillage and weed management methods on chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). I. Yield and yield components. Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research, 16 (2). pp. 189-198.

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Abstract

An experiment was conducted at the Agricultural College farm Duhok University Iraq to study the effect of different methods of weed control on chickpea growth and yield during the growing season of 2009. Ploughs types included disc plow, mould board plow, and cultivator. Weed management practices involved hand hoeing, trifluraline (soil incorporated), Aloxy and paraquat. Results indicated that plough types had no significant effect on any traits of growth or yield of chickpea. Hand hoeing significantly gave highest seed yield and weight of 100 seeds which were 120.4 kg per Donum (1 Donum = 1000m2) and 30.8 g respectively. Both hand-hoeing and paraquat treatments were superior in number of primary branches (3.5 and 3.4), number of pods per plant (12.3 and 11) and hay yield per donum (363.9 and 318.2 kg), respectively. The interaction of hand hoeing with cultivator and mould board was significant for most of traits under study. In addition, the interaction of paraquat with cultivator was significant in plant height and height of the lowest pod traits which were 41.3 and 23.1 cm, respectively.

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: Department of Horticulture College of Agriculture, University of Duhok, Kurdistan
Subjects: Plant Production > Farming Systems
Plant Production > Production Practices
Divisions: Chickpea
Depositing User: Mr T L Gautham
Date Deposited: 20 Oct 2010 09:03
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2010 16:44
Official URL: http://www.wssp.org.pk/9_iraqi3.pdf
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/180

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