Weed management in irrigated onion (Allium cepa L.) under plane zone of western Maharashtra
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Author:J.V. KATHEPURI, V.Y.SANKPAL, H.L. GHADAGE AND S.M. JAWALE
p-ISSN:0024-9602, e-ISSN:2582-5321, Vol:94, Issue:jan-jun
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.100648
Abstract
Onion is popular among the farmers because
of its commercial value. In Maharashtra, it
is mainly grown as a commercial vegetable
crop on an area of 66.5 thousand hectares
with production of 804.0 thousand tones of
bulbs and is leading in the country. Cropweed
competition has long been recognized
as one of the major constraints for low
production of onion. Weeds cause reduction
of 40-80% of bulb yield (Patel et al., 1983).
Due to closer planting and shallow root system
of onion, manual weeding is tedious, expensive
and time consuming. Moreover, non availability
of sufficient labour at critical period of crop
weed competition and some time field conditions
do not permit the manual weeding. The average
bulb yield of onion can be improved through
combination of proper chemical and mechanical
weed control at appropriate time. Keeping this
in view the present study was undertaken to
compare the effect of different weed control
methods on irrigated onion
Key words : Onion, Weed management