An experiment was conducted in a farmer's field with clay loam soil in Cauvery delta zone of Tiruchirapalli district during summer '93 and summer 95 to identify the effect of method of sowing and weed management practices on weed characters. growth and productivity of irrigated sesame grown in rice based cropping sequence. Sowing sesame carly in summer (February) immediately after rice, in lines with a spacing of 30 cm x 30 em with pre-emergence application of pendimethalin at 0.75 kg ba followed by one hand weeding on 30 DAS reduced the population of broad leaved weeds and grassesaeduced the weed dry matter and enhanced the crop growth, yield attributes and yield at sesame erop This treatment also recorded the highest gross income of Rs. 19775. net protit of Rs 13750 and benefit cost rate of 3.28.
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