Performance of Nursery Methods and Crop Geometry of Rice Varieties Under Rice Low Lands
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Author:P. Baskar, K. Siddeswaran, N. Thavaprakaash and P. Muthukrishnan
p-ISSN:0024-9602, e-ISSN:2582-5321, Vol:99, Issue:jul-sep
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.100140
Abstract
A Field experiment was conducted at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore during
Kharif 2008 to evaluate the performance of nursery methods and crop geometry for rice
varieties. The experiment was conducted with two nursery methods (mat and conventional
nursery) to raise seedling for SRI and two varieties (CORH 3 hybrid and ADT 43 variety) with
three square crop geometry viz., 25 x 25 cm, 30 x 30 cm and 35 x 35 cm. Nursery methods and
varieties form the main plot treatments and crop geometry were allotted to sub-plots in a
split plot design replicated thrice. The results revealed that, the growth and yield of rice
varieties not affected by nursery methods. The performance of CORH 3 was superior over
ADT 43 as it produced 16.9 per cent higher yield (6516 kg ha -1 versus 5417 kg ha -1 ). Planting the
crop with 25 x 25 cm geometry registered higher grain yield in ADT 43 and the CORH 3 performed
better with 30 x 30 cm geometry level.
Key words : cultivars, crop geometry, nursery techniques and SRI.