Effects of Tillage Practices on Productivity of Wheat under the Indo-Gangetic Plains
Productivity Improvement of Wheat Through Tillage
Abstract
Wheat is a universal crop at global level. Timely sowing of wheat is one of the major problems under rice-wheat cropping system in Indo-Gangetic plains of India. Traditionally farmers used to burn the rice straw to facilitate seed bed preparation for wheat. Decline in soil organic matter and crop productivity in rice-wheat cropping system has become a major concern to the researcher. At the same time farmers are now interested to use a machinery to facilitate the timely sowing of wheat crop and rice straw management. The soil tillage system may affect the incorporation of crop residue and influence the nutrient dynamics. Considering the above, a field experiment was conducted for two consecutive years at the research farm of B.R.D.P.G.College, Deoria (UP) India to evaluate the effect of different tillage practices on soil health and productivity of wheat under rice-wheat cropping system. Mean data of two years showed that the T3 produced significantly higher number of ear bearing shoots (407) over T4 (390). The grain weight per spike and test weight were lower in T3 and T4 than other tillage practices. Increase of grain yield q/ha in treatment T3 (45.60) and T4 (45.50) have no significant effect to each other but it’s were found significant increase over T1 and T5 (42.90).
