Effect Of Weed Control Practices Under System Of Crop Intensification (sci) On Yield And Quality Of Sesame (sesamum Indicum L.)

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V. DIVYA*, K. VELAYUDHAM, N. THAVAPRAKAASH AND M. DAISY

Department of Agronomy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu-641003, India.

ABSTRACT

A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the “System of Crop Intensification (SCI) practices in Sesame” at Wetland farm of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore during the early summer season (January to May, 2013) in Randomized complete block design with ten treatments and three replications. Among the different treatments, sesame grown under 30 × 30 cm spacing + TIBA @ 50 ppm at 30 DAS + HW at 35 DAS recorded lower density (7.33 m-2) and dry weight of weed at 60 DAS (1.47 g m-2), higher seed and oil yield (1.137 t ha-1 and 502 kg ha-1, respectively). Weed management practices under study viz., hand hoeing and mechanical weeding did not influence the oil content of sesame.

KEYWORDS:

Sesame, SCI, Hand weeding, Mechanical weeding, Yield and Quality.