A field study was conducted during 2008 and 2009 at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar to evaluate the effect of two seeding time (before and after onset of monsoon) and six methods of weed control in direct dry seeded rice. Among the weed control treatments, butachlor applied 1.5 kg/ha in year 2008 and broadcasting of Sesbania knocked down by the application of  2, 4-D (brown manuring) at 30 days after sowing in 2009 recorded lowest weed dry weight. Pre-emergence application of butachlor 1.5 kg/ha yielded highest followed by the application of pretilachlor 0.5 kg/ha and broadcasting of Sesbania knock down with 2,4-D 0.5 kg/ha at 30 DAS which were at par with each other during both the year of experimentation.