Effect of herbicides in transplanted rice under medium land condition in North Eastern Ghat Zone of Odisha

An experiment was carried out at RRTTS, G Udayagiri, Kandhamal, Odisha during the Kharif season of two consecutive years, 2021 and 2022 to study the efficacy of new generation herbicides on density of weed flora, crop yield as well as economics in transplanted rice under medium land condition in North Eastern Ghat zone in Odisha. Weed free treatment recorded significantly the lowest weed dry weight. Among the different herbicides weed management practices, pendimethalin @ 0.75 kg a.i./ha fb chlorimuron ethyl + metasulfuron methyl @ 4 g a.i./hare corded significantly lower dry weight of weeds as compared to rest of the herbicidal treated plots but it was at par with pendimethalin @ 0.75 kg a.i./ha fb one HW at 20 and 40DAS. In case of weed control efficiency, pendimethalin @ 0.75 kg a.i./ha fb chlorimuron ethyl + metasulfuron methyl @ 4 g a.i./ha (79.95 kg ha-cm-1) was significantly higher value of weed control efficiency than that rest of the herbicidal treated plots. The higher grain yield was obtained in pendimethalin @ 0.75 kg a.i./ha fb chlorimuron ethyl + metasulfuron methyl @ 4 g a.i./ha (4.81 t/ha) which was at par with pendimethalin @ 0.75 kg a.i./ha fb Bispyribac sodium (20g a.i./ha) (4.62 t /ha) and significantly superior to rest of the herbicide treatments. The higher benefit: cost ratio (1.78) was obtained from pendimethalin @ 0.75 kg a.i./ha fb chlorimuron ethyl + metasulfuron methyl @ 4 g a.i./ha. Overall, the combination of pendimethalin @ 0.75 kg a.i./ha fb chlorimuron ethyl + metasulfuron methyl @ 4 g a.i./ha is economically profitable (4.81 t/ha) as compared to other chemical treatments for successfully controlling the complex weed flora under transplanted conditions.