Effects of Tillage Practices on Productivity of Wheat under the Indo-Gangetic

Abstract

Field experiment was conducted for two consecutive years at the research farm of Baba Raghav Das Post Graduate College, Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, India to evaluate the effect of different tillage practices on soil health andcrop productivity of wheat under the rice-wheat cropping system of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India under the irrigated ecosystem.Results revealed thattreatment T3 produced significantly higheryield attributes in terms of number of ear bearing shoots (407)as compared to T4(390). However, it was also recorded that the grain weight per spike and test weight were significantly lower in T3 and T4over rest of the practices. The similar trends were followed in case of grain yield under the T3 (45.60) being on a par with T4 (45.50 but it was recorded significantly superior over rest of the tillage practices. With respect to the soil physical and chemical properties, it was also noticed significantly higher under the treatment T4 as compared to other treatment.