Abstract

Field experiments were conducted during kharif and rabi seasons of 1995-'96 to study the effect of rice planting methods under lowland condition. Seedling throwing method was compared with line and random planting methods. In kharif season the grain. yield (6.35 t ha) in seedling throwing method was significantly more than that of line and random planting methods (6.15 and 5.71 t ha respectively). The grain yield of line planted crop was higher (5.84 t ha') in the rabi season, however it was at par with the yield of seedling throwing method (5.61 t ha''). During both the seasons of study. random planting recorded markedly lower yields (5.22 t ha and 5.71 t ha in rabi and kharif seasons respectively). Although the line planting method enhanced the yield to 5.84 t har and 6.15 1 ha during rabi and kharif seasons respectively, the seedling throwing method was more advantageous because of less labour requirement (44.5 per cent of labour saving compared to line planting). The seedling throwing method resulted in higher B:C ratio (2.85 and 3.14 for the rabi and kharif seasons) compared to line planting method (2.79 in rabi and 2.95 in kharif seasons).

Keywords: Planting Methods, Seedling throwing, Line planting, Random planting