Srishti Pandey, H.L. Sonboir and Damini Thawait
Deptt. of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Abstract : The experiment comprising 13 weed management practices which comprised single application of different post-emergence herbicides either alone or in combination and hand weeding was conducted on Clayey Vertisols soil of College of Agriculture, Raipur during kharif season of 20012. Echinochloa colona among grasses, Cyperus iria among sedges and Alternanthera triandra, Eclipta alba and Phyllanthus urinaria among broad leaf weeds were dominant. Over all the most dominant species was Echinochloa colona which ranged between 24-46 per cent at all the growth stages.
Keywords: Major weed species, finger millet
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