Influence Of Time Of Sowing And Row Spacing On Growth And Yield Of Malt Barley (Hordeum distichum L.)

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2009-10 at R.B.S. College Agricultural Research farm, Bichpuri (Agra) to evaluate the effect of dates of sowing and row spacing on growth and yield of malt barley. The experiment comprised of two dates of sowing and three row spacing were laid out in split plot design with four replications. Results revealed that significantly higher growth, yield attributes and yields were recorded with crop sown on November, 14 than that of December, 12. All the growth as well as yield attributes were recorded significantly superior with 23.0 cm row spacing over all other row spacing except 20.5cm row spacing. Crop sown at 23.0 cm row spacing produced significantly higher biological, grain and straw yield and also increased 10.3, 14.4 and 8.1%, respectively over 18.0 cm row spacing.