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Sorghum, Weed management, Yield, Zero tillage
All the weed control treatments significantly reduced the density and dry weight of weeds compared to weedy check at 60 DAS (Table 1). Among the treatments, the lowest weed density, dry weight and highest weed control efficiency (WCE) of 65% was observed in the sequential treatment with pre-emergence application of pendimethalin 0.75 kg + paraquat 0.5 kg/ha fb post-emergence application of 2,4-D amine 0.58 kg/ha and was at par with other sequential treatments and hand weeding at 20 and 40 DAS, but significantly superior to pre-emergence application of herbicides. The lower weed growth in these treatments was mainly due to effective control of weeds in the early stage by pre emergence herbicides and at later stage by post emergence herbicides. Maximum weed growth was observed in unweeded check. In general, sequential treatments were found to be superior to one time application of herbicides. Similar observations reported in normal sown sorghum by Sharma et al. (2000).