Effect of bed planting technique on Pearl millet in saline water irrigation condition in semi-arid region Western part of Uttar Pradesh.

Abstract

A field experiment wasconducted during kharif seasons of 2012 and 2013 at the Research farm of AICRP- Management of Salt Affected Solis and Use of Saline Water in Agriculture, R.B.S.College, Bichpuri,(U.P). The treatment comprised of three levels of irrigation schedule viz.(0.9, 0.6 and 0.3) IW/CPE ratio, three levels of irrigation water salinity (BAW,8 and 12 dS/m) and two method of sowing bed sowing and traditional sowing (flat sowing method). The findings of present investigation indicated that the grain and stover yield as well as most of the growth and yield attributes of pearl millet were significantly influence due to different salinity levels and method of sowing. The results, further revealed that growth attributes such as plant height (cm), dry matter (gm), effective tillers plant-1, ear length (cm), grain weight ear-1 (gm), grain yield plant-1 (gm) and test weight (gm) were significantly higher in bed method of sowing. The heights grain yield recorded in BAW irrigated treatments 23.8 q ha-1 in 2012 and 27.4 in 2013 in bed sowing method in IW/CPE ratio0.9. The same trend was observed in stover yield in both years in pearl millet crop.