Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: The experiment was conducted in Rabi 2020 at the Instructional cum Research Farm, Shaheed Gundadhoor College of Agriculture and Research Station, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh to study the effect of dry spells on growth and yield of wheat under irrigated condition. The experiment was laid on Randomized Complete Block Design (RBD) with replicated 4 times and involved 5 treatments i.e., T1 (25 days dry spell at 45 days after sowing), T2 (20 days dry spell after flower initiation), T3 (20 days dry spell after 50% flowering), T4 (Irrigation at 30% moisture in soil) and T5 (Control) were applied. Dry spells significantly decreased the plant height, panicle length, number of panicles plant-1, test weight, grain yield and harvest index. Maximum reduction of all these parameters were recorded in treatment T5 (Control). However, there was no significant effect of dry spells on the number of seeds panicle-1. It was concluded that treatment T4 with irrigation at 30% moisture in soil performed better and gave higher yield.
Language: English
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4220862628