Pantnagar Journal of Research

Abstract

The present investigation was performed to study the effect of integrated weed management practices on growth parameters in vegetable pea (Pisum sativum L.) at Vegetable Research Centre, Govind Ballabh Pant university of Agriculture and Technology during rabi season of 2022-23. The experiment was set out in randomized block design along with three replications. During this research, the major weed species that were observed in the experimental plot were viz., Eleusine indica L., Cynodon dactylon L. Sorghum halepense L., Chenopodium album L. and Cyperus rotundus L. The experiment comprised of data on growth parameters were collected and analysed using analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results revealed that the performance of the growth parameters i.e., days to 50 % germination and days to 50 % flowering of vegetable pea was significantly influenced by different weed management treatments. Among herbicidal treatments, T5 (Pre emergence application of pinoxaden 5.1 EC @ 70 ml/ha was found to be the best with respect days to 50 % germination and T4 (Pre emergence application of pendimethalin 30 EC @ 1.0 kg a.i./ha with respect to days to 50 % flowering.