Description

Okra is grown in both rainy and summer seasons, mainly for tender fruits to be used as vegetable. Okra is a nutritive vegetable, green and tender fruits provide calcium, iron, vitamin A, B and C. The highest green fruit yield (96.48 q ha-1) was recorded under the treatment of hand weeding at 20, 40 and 60 days after sowing i.e., Weed free (W1) and it was at par with Pre-emergence application of Pendimethalin @ 1.0 kg a.i./ha (Blanket application)+Hand Weeding at 40 DAS (W7) and Hand weeding at 20 and 40 DAS (W2). These treatments effectively managed the weeds and gave higher yield over unweeded control (W0). Monocot, dicot, sedge and total weeds population at 20 DAS were found significantly lowest under treatment (W7) i.e., pre-emergence application of pendimethalin @ 1.0 kg a.i./ha (W4)+Hand Weeding at 40 DAS (3.20, 2.75, 2.99 and 5.07 per m2, respectively) as compare to rest of treatments but it was found at par with treatment (W5) i.e., W4+interculturing at 20 DAS (3.22, 2.77, 3.04 and 5.13 per m2), W6 i.e., W4 + interculturing at 40 DAS (3.26, 2.84, 3.05 and 5.20 per m2) and W4 i.e., pre-emergence application of pendimethalin @ 1.0 kg a.i./ha (3.27, 2.85, 3.06 and 5.21 per m2.