2025, Vol. 8, Special Issue 5

author(s)
Devendra Pal Singh, Srishti Singh, Kuldeep Singh, Kishan Kumar and Vishal Singh

abstract
An experiment was conducted at Agronomy Research Farm, Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya (U.P.) during the Rabi season of 2019-20 and 2020-21. The experiment was laid out in a split-plot design having three Sowing methods i.e. M₁: Conventional (Sowing after the cleaning of residue), M₂: Sowing with a happy seeder, and M₃: Sowing after residue incorporation were allotted as the main plot, and three irrigation schedules i.e. I₁: 03 Irrigation (CRI, LJ, and milking stage), I₂: 04 Irrigation (CRI, Tillering, LJ and milking stage), I₃: 05 Irrigation (CRI, Tillering, LJ, Milking and dough stage) kept as subplot. The experiment was replicated three times on silty loam in texture soil and medium in fertility status having p^H (8.32 and 8.26), organic carbon (0.31 and 0.32%), EC (0.28 and 0.30) dsm-¹. The results revealed that the maximum plant height of wheat was recorded under sowing with a happy seeder while it was significantly higher than Conventional (Sowing after cleaning of residue). Sowing with a happy seeder recorded considerably higher dry matter accumulation than conventional sowing after residue cleaning while at par with sowing after residue incorporation during booth years of experimentation.