The experiment was conducted with five treatments and four replications in Randomized Block Design (RBD) during Kharif season of 2016-17 at Agronomy Research Farm, . University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya (.). Five treatments are selected of which two treatments were supplied with 5 t/ha and 10 t/ha paddy straw mulch and other three non-mulched viz. four hand weedings alone, herbicide (metribuzin .) with two hand weedings and weedy check. |