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alokpatra@yahoo.co.in
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Regional Research & Technology Transfer Station, Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Chiplima (Orissa)
Transplanted rice, Chemical weed control, Herbicide mixture
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficiency of herbicide mixture of almix (metasulfuron methyl + chlorimuron ethyl) and butachlor to control both grassy and broad leaved weeds. Application of almix 0.004 kg/ha mixed with butachlor 0.938 kg/ha at three days after transplanting (DAT) was at par with hand-weeding twice at 20 and 40 DAT in controlling weeds and higher grain yield. This application increased the grain yield by 45.1% over the unweeded check. There was a negative linear relationship between weed dry weight and grain yield.