Effect of brown manuring on growth components of direct seeded rice

A field experiment was conducted with ten treatments and three replications, laid out with randomised complete block design to study the Effect of brown manuring on growth components of direct seeded rice at Kelageri village of Dharwad district, nearer to Main Agricultural Research Station, Dharwad during kharif season 2016. The results revealed that weed free check recorded significantly highest plant height at harvest (70 cm), leaf area (21.00 dm2 plant-1), and total dry matter accumulation (72.33 g plant -1) over all other treatments except application of butachlor 50 EC @ 3.0 l ha-1 as pre emergence followed by knockdown of sunnhemp by bispyribac sodium 10% SC @ 250 ml ha-1 (69.67 cm, 20.60 dm2 plant-1, 1.03, and 70.00 g plant -1 respectively).