Effect of weed management practices on economics of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

Abstract

Present study was “Effect of weed management practices on economics of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)’’ Experiment was conducted IGKV-Raipur during 2023-24 and 2024-25 that application of Effective management involves integrating manual weeding with pre-emergence and post-emergence, Estimate cost of cultivation was recorded maximum in treatment T12-hand weeding twice at 20 and 40 DAS (Rs. 34654, 35727 and 35190 ha-1) followed by T9- oxyfluorfen150 g ha-1 (PE) fb quizalofop-p-ethyl100 g ha-1 (PoE) (Rs. 31267, 32340 and 31803 ha-1). Gross return was considerably affected because of various weed management practices. Treatment T12- hand weeding twice at 20 and 40 DAS had maximum gross return (Rs. 100222, 103926 and 102074 ha-1) followed by T8- oxyfluorfen150 g ha-1 (PE) fb topramezone20.6 g ha-1 (PoE), (Rs. 96645, 98531 and 97588 ha-1). Net return had comparable differences among various weed management practices. The highest net return was recorded under treatment T8- oxyfluorfen150 g ha-1 (PE) fb topramezone20.6 g ha-1 (PoE), (Rs. 66778, 68532 and 67655 ha-1) followed by T12- hand weeding twice at 20 and 40 DAS (Rs. 65568, 67591 and 66580 ha-1), T9- oxyfluorfen150 g ha-1 (PE) fb quizalofop-p-ethyl100 g ha-1 (PoE), (Rs. 62382, 66040 and 64211 ha-1). The maximum benefit cost ratio was noticed under treatment T8- oxyfluorfen150 g ha-1 (PE) fb topramezone20.6 g ha-1 (PoE), (3.24,3.18 and 3.21) followed by T6-metribuzin350g ha-1(PE) fb propaquizafop100g ha-1 (PoE), (3.12, 3.08 and 3.10) However, minimum Cost of cultivation, gross return, net returns and benefit: cost ratio was obtained under Treatment T13- weedy check.