Author(s):

K Pavithra, P Janaki, G Gomadhi, S Rathika and J Ejilane

Abstract: Finger millet is an essential diet on everyday intake. It’s the third most food crop among millets. It requires less water to produce the yield and is recommended as a tolerant crop for sodic soil. Hence, an experiment was conducted with application of various herbicides in combination as subplots and two nitrogen levels viz., 100% RDF and 125% N RDF in split plot design to study their individual effect and their interaction. The results showed that application of 125% N RDF, PE oxyfluorfen + EPOE bispyribac sodium and 125% N plus PE oxyfluorfen + EPOE bispyribac sodium recorded higher primary nutrients uptake. The utrients recovery was also arrived and found to be higher comparatively in pendimethalin plots. Results revealed that the application of pre- emergence and post emergence herbicides have higher recovery of N, P and K in finger millet due to the maintainenence of weed free condition for longer extent along with 125 % N level through boosting the crop growth and improving the nutrients absorption.

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